Thus far, current laws have not been an issue, since today’ s energy prices do not make DG financially attractive enough to reach even these low state caps. However, more widespread adoption of DG is critical to meeting existing goals for increasing the fraction of environmentally-friendly renewable energy sources. For example, the Renewables Portfolio Standard targets 25% of electricity generation from intermittent renewables [8], while California's Executive Order S-21–09 in California calls for 33% of generation from renewables by 2020 [31]. Given current laws, if and when DG becomes more widespread, buildings will have to look beyond net metering to balance on-site energy generation and consumption, while also reducing DG's costs. We envision consumers using a combination of on-site renewables, on-site battery-based energy storage, and the electric grid to satisfy their energy requirements, while also balancing local supply and demand.