Project notes
About the project
A 74-panel, 32.6 kW rooftop array is on the upper end of what Sprightful installs on a single-family home. This Coral Gables residence has the roof area, the consumption profile, and the aesthetic standards to justify it — and the array had to look like it belonged on a Gables rooftop rather than a commercial warehouse.
Sprightful designed the layout around the home's distinctive rooflines, using Jinko's bifacial 440-watt DNA modules paired one-for-one with Enphase IQ 8M microinverters. Bifacial modules capture light reflected off the roof surface in addition to direct sunlight, squeezing extra production out of every square foot — which matters when you're trying to max out rooftop generation without adding a visible second array. The end result is a clean, rectilinear 74-panel layout that disappears into the Spanish architecture from street level.
To finish the look, we wrapped the entire array with perimeter solar skirts — aluminum trim that closes the ~5-inch gap between the module frames and the tile roof below. Skirts do three things at once: they hide the visual "gap" that makes most rooftop PV look tacked on, they keep leaves, debris, and wildlife (squirrels and nesting birds are persistent under panels in SoFlo) from getting underneath the array, and they turn a collection of rectangular modules into a single clean architectural element. Sprightful reserves skirts for our highest-end residential installs — the labor and material cost adds meaningfully to the install — but on projects like this one, where the array has to look like it belongs on the home rather than be attached to it, they're the finishing touch that makes the system feel designed rather than installed.