Solar in Newark means a roof on older dense housing, often low-slope, often shaded by the next building, and sometimes not yours alone. Parapets, party walls, hatches, and the neighboring roof decide the layout. A tired membrane or a coated roof that already ponds should be repaired before racks go down. If the top floor is a rental and the roof is common, say that first. Permission and the covering are the project. Equipment comes after.
Shade is close. The building to the south, a tree in a rear yard, and even a parapet can cut the useful part of a small roof. A picture from above will miss a soft deck and a drain that already sits in a puddle. Attachments have to suit a flat or low-slope covering, not a shingle detail copied from a detached house. Leave paths to the drains and the hatch. Say what else is on the roof: condensers, vents, a deck, old coatings. Those are the obstacles.
Wind and uplift still matter on a low building, and so does water that has nowhere to slope. The electrical path may run through a tight cellar and an older service that is crowded or shared between flats. Do not guess a capacity you have not read. Say whether each flat has its own meter or the building is fed as one. That fact changes the interconnection conversation. Say it without a detour away from the roof and the wire.
Have the roof shape, who controls it, what shades it, and whether it already leaks. Ask who pulls the permit and who files the interconnection. Ask how any penetration is flashed and what happens to the array when the covering is replaced. Ask who owns the modules after they are mounted and who is called when an inverter is silent. Keep money out of it. The site is brick, a small roof, and an old service.
A wide suburban slope is the wrong picture. Solar in Newark is a low roof between other roofs, shade, and the question of who can stand on it. Call the number on this page.