Darnell Johnson is the CEO and President of Urban Efficiency Group (UEG), Illinois’ first native, minority-owned utility implementation and sustainability design firm. Darnell served in the United States Army for nine years and while on active duty, began his formal education at Central Texas College majoring in Urban Planning. Darnell graduated from Moody Bible Institute with a bachelor’s in Theology and a minor in Counseling.

His industry-specific credentials include but are not limited to: BPIBuilding Analyst, Building Envelope, Infiltration Duct Leakage, Energy Auditor, Quality Control Inspector, Healthy Home Evaluator, RESNETRater, EcoDistrict Accredited Professional, and DEI Certified Professional (Cornell University).

Darnell is a spiritual and sustainability architect, with over two decades of entrepreneurial, social science, and sustainability experience. His commitment to engineering solutions that humanizes
sustainability for BIPOC communities and advancing energy equity is fundamental to all of his work.

Darnell and Urban Efficiency Group have helped thousands of underserved residents across Northwest Indiana, the greater Chicagoland, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin reduce their energy burden by delivering energy efficiency and community sustainability services, while working toward carbon neutrality.

He believes that diversity brings strength, inclusion is indicative of an acceptance that is essential to growth, and equity is a human right that should be embraced as the standard and not an exception. By pragmatically implementing these beliefs, systemic change would be the resolve and “Stronger Together” would become a reality.