Climate change is an existential threat to humanity. We must use every tool at our disposal to halt and reverse the already damaging impacts of this crisis. The University of Illinois recognizes this, and also recognizes its role in reducing carbon emissions. In 2015, the Illinois Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment (iSEE) published its second version of the Illinois Climate Action Plan (iCAP). This plan set a goal to make the U of I carbon neutral by 2050, which includes every scope of emissions; from energy production to the transportation faculty and staff use to get to work. Carbon neutrality is both an ambitious and admirable goal, but it is not easy (otherwise, there would be no climate crisis). U of I is uniquely challenging because most of the campus buildings are heated through district heating, by using steam directly from the campus power plant, Abbott. Generating steam is quite easy for a thermal plant, such as coal, natural gas, or even nuclear. But it is difficult and costly to generate through electricity.