Alice and Frank from Hazlet, NJ have been Green Sun Energy Services clients since February of 2018. Two jobs booked together and installed five weeks apart.
A 16 kW standby generator
Commissioned in March of 2018, on natural gas, behind a 200-amp transfer switch covering the whole service. The load survey put the house at 1,877 square feet.
8.375 kW of solar
Twenty-five LG 335N1C-A5 panels followed in April, on Ecolibrium mounting with a SolarEdge inverter. The design estimate is 11,049 kWh in the first year.
344 feet of critter guard
Three hundred and forty-four feet is a long run for a twenty-five panel array, and it says something the kW figure does not: guard footage tracks the perimeter of the array rather than its output, so a system split across several roof planes takes far more of it than a single unbroken block of the same size.
Hazlet sits close enough to the bay for outages to be a seasonal expectation rather than a surprise, which is the usual reason a house here ends up with both an array and a machine rather than choosing between them.
Project Facts
- Location
- Hazlet, NJ
- Services
- Solar Critter Guard, Solar Panel Installation, Standby Generator Installation
- Client since
- February 2018
Solar
- Panels
- LG Model # 335N1C-A5
- Panels
- 25
- System size
- 8.38 kW
- Inverter
- SolarEdge SE7600H-US000NNC2
- Mounting system
- Ecolibrium Solar
- Estimated first-year production
- 11,049 kWh
- Electric utility
- JCP&L
- Critter guard fitted
- 344 ft
Standby generator
- Manufacturer
- Generac Model # 7037
- Rated output
- 16 kW LP / 16 kW NG
- Fuel
- Natural Gas
- Home sized for
- 1,877 sq ft
- Electrical service
- 200 amp
- Transfer switch
- 200 amp
- Load management
- Managed Whole House
This Company is the Best so Happy with our Generac Generator it has already helped us we had 2 outages & it kicked on in 10 seconds amazing & our Solar Panels well I have to say our Electric Bill has dropped at least 100. & it’s only been a month. Everyone should consider both. Glenn, Karen,Chris & there Team are 100% with you from beginning to the End.
Green Sun Energy Services replied
Thank you. Ten seconds is what a standby generator is supposed to do and rarely gets credit for. Having solar as well means the two systems cover opposite problems: the array works while the grid is up, and the generator only matters when it is not. Glad both have made an impression so quickly.
Questions from Hazlet homeowners
Standby generatorCan a standby generator be installed in Hazlet without natural gas?
Yes. Residential standby generators commonly run on liquid propane. A properly sized tank, regulator and piping system has to be designed to deliver adequate vapour flow and pressure for the machine.
SolarCan the system be switched on before the utility approves it?
A grid-connected system should not be placed into normal parallel operation until the utility has issued the required authorisation. Running it beforehand can breach the interconnection agreement and the utility's requirements.
Standby generatorHow often should a standby generator be serviced?
Maintenance follows the schedule for the exact model and its operating hours. For current air-cooled units that means an annual inspection plus scheduled work at hour-and-year intervals. Extended running during a long outage can bring the next service forward.