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The blueprint behind Mycrogrid®.

Now in its second edition, Cut the Cord traces the evolution from traditional grid-tied solar to residential microgrids built around production, storage, monitoring, and local control. Many of the principles that shape Mycrogrid® today were first developed in these pages — including the idea that true energy independence begins when the utility becomes your backup, not your primary energy source.

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Inside Cut the Cord

A look at the ideas that challenge traditional solar thinking and explain why residential energy is moving toward local control. Written before many of today's market changes, "Cut the Cord" anticipated the shift from grid-dependent solar to intelligent residential microgrids — a direction the industry is now rapidly embracing.

Why energy independence became personal.

Vincent Battaglia shares the experiences that led him to question the traditional utility model and ultimately inspired the creation of Mycrogrid®.

Rethinking the utility model

The book examines how centralized electricity shaped residential energy — and why local production, storage, and control represent the next evolution.

Beyond solar alone

Solar generation is only the beginning. The book explains why battery storage and intelligent control transform solar into a complete energy system.

The future is local control

Discover why residential microgrids are becoming the next generation of home energy — designed to produce, store, monitor, and control power where it's actually used.

Core principles

What the book is arguing.

The book builds a simple case: solar changed everything, storage changes what's possible, and microgrids complete the transition from utility dependence to local energy control.

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Solar is not the finish line

Solar changed residential energy — but it wasn't the destination. It was the first step toward something much larger.

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Storage changes everything.

Energy independence begins when your home can store, manage, and use its own electricity — not simply generate it.

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Microgrids complete the journey.

A true microgrid combines production, storage, monitoring, and intelligent control into one local energy system — with the utility serving as backup rather than the primary source of power.

The founder's take

The future of energy isn't bigger utilities. It's millions of independent microgrids.

In "Cut the Cord", Vincent Battaglia argues that the greatest shift in residential energy isn't more solar panels — it's the movement away from centralized utilities and toward intelligent, locally controlled energy systems.

Solar changed the economics.

Solar proved homeowners could produce electricity. The next question is who controls it after it's generated.

Control is moving home.

The future belongs to homes that produce, store, monitor, and manage their own energy — with the utility serving as backup rather than command center.

A decentralized energy future

Residential microgrids represent the same shift the internet brought to communications — moving intelligence and control closer to the individual.

Energy doesn't have to travel hundreds of miles to power your home. The future of energy begins where it's consumed.

The utility isn't disappearing. It's changing jobs. Its new job is backup.

Why it's here

Why this book matters.

Long before Mycrogrid® became a company, it was an idea: that homeowners should produce, store, monitor, and control their own energy. Cut the Cord is where that philosophy first came together. Mycrogrid® wasn't created to sell the ideas in the book. It was created to build them.

More than a solar book

"Cut the Cord" isn't about selling equipment. It's about explaining why residential energy is moving away from centralized utilities and toward locally controlled microgrids.

The evolution

It traces the industry's evolution from rooftop solar to battery storage, intelligent monitoring, and complete residential microgrids.

See the future taking shape

Many of the ideas introduced in "Cut the Cord" are now becoming standard practice as homeowners seek greater control, resilience, and energy independence.

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Judge the thinking for yourself.

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The book behind the Mycrogrid® movement.

Read it in print, listen on Audible, or pick up a complimentary copy when you visit the Mycrogrid® office in Palm Desert while supplies last. However you experience it, you'll discover the thinking that became Mycrogrid® and why the future of residential energy belongs to local control, battery storage, and complete home microgrids.

Expanded in the Second Edition.

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