Should every campus building generate its own power? Sustainability workgroups are vulnerable to speculative hype about net-zero buildings. We remind trendsniffers that the central feature of a distributed energy resource–the eyesore known as the university steam plant–delivers most of the economic benefit of a microgrid. Comment on the 2026 revision received by March 27, 2025 will be heard at the NFPA June 2025 Expo through NFPA’s NITMAM process.