About Dayton Energy Collaborative
Our Mission
Collaborate with organizations and residents to make existing housing energy efficient, relilient, and healthy in Dayton
Our Vision
Build the tools and collaborative processes to make an effective and efficient home repair network that successfully addresses houses holistically and serves both the member partners and residents
Our Core Values
Collaboration
Customer Service
Hollistic Approach
History
2012
CleanEnergy4All
Founded in 2012 as CleanEnergy4All, the organization's original mission was to equip nonprofit and charitable organizations with solar power. This model allowed such organizations to achieve sustainability goals while saving money on utility bills that could then be allocated to funding the essential services that aligned with their mission. Having completed a multitude of installations in both California and Ohio, CleanEnergy4All began to identify the need for a more dynamic approach to sustainability in the Dayton community.
2021
Dayton Energy Collaborative
In 2021, the organization reorganized itself and established a new mission to create a more dynamic approach to addressing residential energy inefficiency in the Dayton community. The organization became Dayton Energy Collaborative (DEC) and focused on coordinating home repair and weatherization programs to reduce energy burdens (the percentage of household income spent on energy bills).
Why? DEC took the approach of “resource connecting” instead of reinventing the wheel. The programs of the now Dayton Home Repair Network began to work together after the EF4 Memorial Day tornadoes of 2019 damaged over 800 properties in Dayton, most in north Dayton.
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DEC re-started conversations of collaborations with these programs, already completing home repairs and weatherization for under-resourced households in the Dayton regions, learned about the work, how they did it, barriers they faced. We sought to build working partnerships between all of these programs and find helpful ways to support and uplift this work. DEC then builds our programs where we see gaps as it relates to our mission of making sure houses are energy efficient, resilient, and healthy.
With these organizational partnerships, DEC helped develop a robust home repair and energy efficiency one-stop-shop retrofit program, now called the Dayton Home Repair Network (DHRN). DEC proudly facilitates the DHRN, convening communication, building systems to make collaboration functional, and leveraging funding to fill in gaps.
DEC continues to bring the focus of household energy efficiency into this collaboration. The team also focuses on home health and resiliency, to make up our tri-pillar holistic approach for addressing homes.