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Welcome to the club.

I have a 42 panel 12kw system with enphase micro's installed end of 2021.

I've slowly moved all my appliances except for the boiler over to electric. Still not a dime spent on electric since the spring of 2022... I did suffer one panel failure and one micro failure that was handled under warranty. Did pay for squirrel 🐿️ defenses. Little buggers.

When I installed my first array, I made my house as inefficient as possible!

My power company would only allow you to install an array that provided 70% of your historical power usage. I wanted a bigger one. So I held off on a number of improvements until after the array had been installed.

Nope, NJ is more sunny than Michigan. Stop trying to harsh my solar install before it's even installed 😂

I just got the approval from the NJ Solar Incentive program. I think there's still a utility permit required which should come this week, then the contractor applies for the town permit.

I think they submitted the permits about two weeks ago. The whole project should be 8 weeks total, so in maybe a month or so things should be about lined up for the install.

I wish mine would get wet occasionally, rain cleans them off and in this 100 degree heat cooling them down would increase production.

The ship has probably sailed, single inverter would work for your right neighbor but your install would work much better with micro inverters. Partial shading is the bane of PV arrays.

You can still make the current setup work well if they can get an inverter that has multiple MPPT inputs (ie SMA Sunny Boy Inverter SB6.0 ) and try to break up the arrays so partial shading will only effect some of the strings instead of all of them.

Good for you for taking the plunge. With the power prices I see down there, I'm surprised there isn't more PV, ROI is very quick.

@JUGHNE PV arrays protect the shingles since they shade them and keep UV out. The shingles under the array will last a lot longer. Metal+PV is great but spendy.

I have always been curious concerning roof mount panel; do you consider the R&R cost of the panels when you have to re-shingle the roof?

I live where hail storms can happen every few years putting shingles and panels at risk. Are the panels insured with your home policy?

Makes metal roofing look more desirable, if allowed.

I have 6200w installed with a Sunny Boy single inverter. This inverter will supply 2000w in the event of a power outage, but you have to manually switch it

How often do you have a power outage?

Sounds like a good deal from NJ and on the feedback. I need to use my excess feed back or it expires every March