The center is the home to more than twenty energy-saving programs including the Home Energy Audit, Business and Government Energy Audit, and Energy Workshops. Like the rest of Dayton Power and Light's programs, the Energy Resource Center focuses on three central themes - efficiency, value, and choices. Heating to such high temperatures is critical to the manufacturing of engineering devices used by the electronics, aerospace, and ceramics industries. Electrical heating elements, especially those which are used in air, are a major advancement over other heating techniques such as gas or oil fired heating, as they significantly reduce the environmental polluting gasses such as hydrocarbons, carbon dust, carbon monoxide, and carbon dioxide. In addition, electrical heating is more energy and cost efficient because heat may be better directed and radiation can be controlled more efficiently.
Electrical heating is also safer and non-explosive.
Until now, high temperature electric heating technology has been costly. MHI has developed heating elements which exceed the performance and efficiency of the existing high-price products. MHI has been able to reduce the energy necessary to manufacture the heating elements as well as reducing the energy usage of the installed product.