Decarbonization. Renewable Energy. Sustainable Design. With buildings consuming forty percent of the total energy produced nationally each year, architects and engineers are being challenged to design buildings that not only consume less resources, but also utilize cleaner sources of energy. Using the recently completed Phase One of the North District at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) as a case study, SCB completed a comparative analysis between a traditional mixed-fuel and all-electric powered student community.