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The Grind has one. I’d check their IG

Putting Solar on a typical detached house vs a Brownstone/attached house in Jersey City are very different things. I had literal dozens of companies hang up on me once it did not fit their archetype of a single family home with a shingled, angled roof on a stick frame house.

Sorry I meant to be more clear. I am moving out of the complex...really just for some cardio machines and dumbbells is all I need.

This is great, thanks so much for the details.

Hope this also helps someone else. I'm hoping for similar results, we have less roof, but less sky lights.

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I believe our roof is 17x50 feet (1/3 of the roof is sky lights and HVAC). The total cost was 20k. Back then there was a 25 percent federal tax credit which I think is now 30%? You also get money from NJ (TRECs) based on kWh’s produced in addition to the electricity you save. As you can see in the chart we build up a lot of credits in the spring that then get used up pretty fast in December. Most of the solar companies can give you a proposal remotely using satellite imagery.

Can you share your approximate square footage of roof as well as the amount electricity you generate?

What was the cost? Did you finance?

Please share which details you can.

We unfortunately do not have heat pumps. We initially renovated our home in 2016 and we didn’t know of their existence back then.

Is heatpumps what you use?

Why can't you use the complex's gym? Hard to help without knowing exactly what you do at the gym.

For lifting, I would say World Boxing Gym is pretty great. A bit gritty but I like it.

Used to park there to visit friends but yeah you’re not supposed to

Second Patrick O’Brian, he’s a one man world unto himself with his twenty novels that are really one huge novel. Can you imagine the character development you get over the span of twenty novels that feature the same five or six main characters?

The lot is managed by the folks who manage the surrounding Liberty Harbour apartment buildings. They charge by the month for assigned spots, but I think you need to live in one of their buildings to be allowed to park there. You can try calling them to find out. Do not park there without registering - you’ll be booted or towed.

Private parking lot used by hospital employees, condo residents and Zeppelin Hall customers. If the bar is open, you can park in the lot but they’ll start booting cars once it closes/early the next morning. All the side streets around the condos are private and you’ll need a permit issued by the condos to park on the street.

The math checks out for them to offset quite a bit of electric costs, but everyone's roof and tree coverage varies.

Usually with financing, the panels can generate enough electricity to pay for the monthly costs and then some. After the financing is paid off, you get even more savings monthly.

The biggest thing for me is resiliency. With solar and a battery, I won't have to worry about a branch knocking out my power and waiting several days for a repair. I've had quite a few friends have this happen, and it can be extremely dangerous in winter (ice storms) to go very long without power. I don't have a fireplace to light in an emergency, etc.

Is this really a suggestion to reach out to someone who lives at 197 York? Isn't that a bit... invasive?

it is privately owned and given you didn't know, you (personally) likely cannot park there

the street parking is also not public. i see cars booted in the lot and all along that street all the time, the developer/owner seems quite picky about it.

if jersey city parking authority hired those guys they'd hit the annual quota before the month of January was over...

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Busa bus who do ya truss ?

Do a Google maps satellite search of your area to see if anyone has solar on their roof on attached houses.

If so contact the owner and ask who did it, is it saving money, etc.

You mentioned downtown I see some on 197 York near Marin Blvd. on one roof in a row of attached houses. Also on 143 Grand on a attached row house.

Interesting not many in JC I see a few up Journal Square on unattached houses. (you would think you would see more DT ..younger home owners)

Thank you, I hadn't searched the NJ sub.

Thanks this is awesome to hear

We installed 14 panels on our brownstone in 2020 (space limited by skylights and HVAC equipment). It covers 80 percent of our electricity for the year. Our heating is electric FYI. We had a very good experience with Sunnymac (regional installer for SunPower). Our only hiccup in the process was PSEG which delayed final approval multiple times.

I had them installed on my townhouse ( which is attached to another house on one side) happy to give you more info if you DM!

This question is asked often in the NJ sub. If you search you’ll find posts like this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/newjersey/comments/v2m1e9/experience_with_tesla_solar_roof/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf