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Cornerstone guide
Microgrid: A Coachella Valley Homeowner's Guide
A plain-English explanation of solar, battery backup, generator integration, monitoring, and energy control for desert homes.
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Guides
Energy control guides for Coachella Valley homeowners.
Practical Coachella Valley guides to home microgrids, solar, battery backup, generators, monitoring, and energy control.
Published guides
Start with the category.
Mycrogrid® resources are built as evergreen decision guides, not thin weekly posts. This first guide defines the complete home microgrid and gives homeowners a practical way to think about energy control.
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New guide
Battery Backup for Power Outages: What Stays On When the Grid Goes Down
Why solar alone shuts off in an outage, what a home battery actually keeps running during a Coachella Valley heat event, and how to plan backup priorities.
Choose your starting point
Start with the decision in front of you.
Some questions can be answered in a guide. Others depend on your address, utility, loads, and outage priorities. Choose the path that matches what you are trying to solve.
Not sure where to begin? Bring a recent utility bill and your outage priorities. We’ll map the right starting point.
Schedule a system consultationLearn enough to ask better questions.
Bring those questions into the Design Studio and work through the home, the usage, the backup priorities, and the budget before anything is specified.
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