The questions homeowners actually ask.

A Mycrogrid® is a complete home energy system: solar generation, battery storage, and Mycroguard™ monitoring software designed to work as one. It produces, stores, and controls your energy on your property — so the utility becomes backup to your grid instead of the other way around.

Solar is production, not control. Panels lower your bill, but your home still runs on the utility's rules — and a grid-tied solar-only system still goes dark in a blackout. A Mycrogrid® system adds the storage and control layer, so your home runs on its own power and you decide when, where, and how your energy gets used.

Yes, if you want to be. The design goal is simply to flip the relationship: your system generates and stores power on-site as the primary source, and the grid sits behind it as backup.

A standard grid-tied solar system is required to shut off during an outage. A Mycrogrid® system keeps your critical appliances running on stored power — that is the difference between designing for bill reduction and designing for independence.

Three changes hit at once. NEM 3.0 cut the value of solar sent back to the grid by roughly 75%. The 30% federal solar tax credit has ended. And the fixed monthly fee just to stay connected to the grid keeps climbing. The math now rewards homes that store and use their own power on-site instead of exporting it.

A Mycrogrid® system is designed not to export power to the grid, so there is no interconnection application and no Permission-to-Operate wait — the multi-month bottleneck grid-tied systems sit in before they can even be switched on. The utility no longer controls your timeline.

Mycroguard™ is the software side of Mycrogrid®: proactive, 24/7 monitoring that watches your system around the clock, diagnoses issues remotely — often before you know there's a problem — and coordinates the fix before small issues become big ones.

Many homeowners use a HELOC, and it can fit a project a few different ways: fund the full system upfront, split between cash and credit, or phase the project and add battery storage later. Terms and rates vary by lender, so we map the options against your actual project rather than pretending every lender is the same.

Nothing gets orphaned. Mycrogrid® is led by the same founder and team, and existing warranties and service support are honored and carried forward. Existing customers also get preferred pricing on storage and upgrades — plus 15 years of Mycroguard™ monitoring at no additional cost.

Usually not — but you need to know who's now responsible for what. Three things survive an installer's collapse. Your equipment warranties — panels, inverters, battery — come from the manufacturers, not the installer, and most of those manufacturers are still in business and still honoring them. If you leased, your lease didn't vanish; it was typically transferred to a servicing company that now owns the agreement and administers its terms. If you bought outright, your original installer carried the workmanship warranty required by your state, covering how the system was installed. The real problem is rarely whether coverage exists — it's understanding who stands behind each piece. That's what we help homeowners sort out: what coverage still exists, who's responsible, and a clear path forward when service is needed.

Our headquarters is at 41555 Cook St in Palm Desert, California, and we've been rooted in the Coachella Valley for years. If you're not sure whether your project is in our service area, call us and we'll tell you straight.

Two ways. Schedule an in-person consultation — your actual roof, usage, battery direction, and real numbers — or call (760) 568-3413 and talk it through with the team. Either way, every design is confirmed with a site visit and a real proposal before anything is final.