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  • Feature Articles

    World LPG Association Names Innovation Award Winners

    The World LPG Association (WLGPA) announced two winners of its Innovation Awards from the 2015 Global Technology Conference held in Singapore last year, and they are both from the U.S.: one for an LPG-powered micro combined cooling heating and power systems and the other for LPG direct injection engine research. The 2016 Global Technology Conference presentations will take place Nov. 15 as part of the World LPG Forum in Florence, Italy, and WLPGA managing director James Rockall will present the awards the following day. Randy Erwin of M-TriGen won with his submission, “LPG-Powered Micro Combined Heating and Power Systems (MCCHP). Erwin wrote that the LPG industry “faces the continued challenge of growing its demand base in a way that is not tied to the seasonal...

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    PERC Announces First Ever ‘Propane Leadership Awards’

    WASHINGTON (October 19, 2016) – The Propane Education & Research Council (PERC) announced its first annual Propane Leadership Award recipients today at GIE+EXPO in Louisville, Kentucky. Mike Halloran, owner of Halloran Power Equipment and MowerWorks in Chicago, and Jeff Sebert, owner of Sebert Landscaping in Chicago, are the first-ever recipients of the award. “The Propane Leadership Award is designed to recognize those in the commercial landscape industry who are not only using propane equipment to better their own business profiles, but who have become propane advocates to their peers as well,” said Jeremy Wishart, deputy director of business development for PERC. “Both Mike Halloran and Jeff Sebert are shining examples of business owners who did their homework and understood the positive impact propane equipment could...

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    PERC Awards 2016 Top User of Propane Autogas at BusCon

    (Indianapolis, IN) October 19, 2016 — Six transit fleets including Alliance AutoGas partner, Van Go Transportation, of Richmond, Virginia, received the 2016 Top User of Propane Autogas Award from the Propane Education & Research Council (PERC) at the BusCon Expo in Indianapolis this month. The award celebrates and recognizes vehicle fleets that are creating healthier environments for passengers as well as cities, with clean, cost-effective, and domestically-produced propane autogas. Van Go Transportation’s general manager, Travis Snellings, accepted the award on behalf of the company. Van Go Transportation has been partnering with Alliance AutoGas and propane autogas consumers since 2012. Van Go Transportation’s Sid del Cardayre discussed why the company made the choice to upgrade to autogas. “At first it was an ethical and environmental question...

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    ARI Introduces Fuel Cost Reduction Program To Improve Bottom Line

    (Mount Laurel, NJ) Oct. 18, 2016 — ARI is the world’s largest privately held vehicle fleet management provider based in Mount Laurel, New Jersey. With more than 2 million vehicles on the road worldwide, ARI has created a Fuel Cost Reduction Program® (tapping into the data produced by its drivers and vehicles) that helps fleets track, improve cost per gallon and miles per gallon to support corporate fuel policies with technology to improve its clients’ bottom lines. The ARI ® Fuel Cost Reduction Program, which has helped companies better understand, manage and reduce their annual fuel costs by improving driver behavior and identifying less expensive gas stations, has earned the company a place on the first-ever Analytics 50 ranking. A collaboration between Drexel University’s LeBow...

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    Clean Air Act Violation Creates Opportunity for Propane School Buses

    (WASHINGTON, D.C.) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Oct. 6, 2016, a settlement with Detroit Diesel Corp. that resolves alleged violations of the Clean Air Act for selling heavy-duty diesel engines that were not certified by EPA and did not meet applicable emission standards. Propane, however, has been designated as an alternative clean, abundant American energy source by the 1990 Clean Air Act. Under the settlement, Detroit Diesel will spend $14.5 million on projects to reduce nitrogen oxide and other pollutants, including replacing high-polluting diesel school buses and locomotive engines with models that meet current emissions standards including propane autogags. Detroit Diesel will also pay a $14 million civil penalty. Multiple states offer grant programs, including Tennessee,...

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  • Training

    Propane Autogas Vehicle Technician Training Receives National Excellence in Training Award

    The National Alternative Fuels Training Consortium a program of West Virginia University, spent much of 2016 traveling the United States training automotive technicians to repair and maintain propane autogas vehicles utilizing its Propane Autogas Vehicle Technician Training curriculum. Now this curriculum and training program has been recognized by the automotive training industry for its outstanding quality. The Propane Autogas Vehicle Technician Training is a three-day course which focuses on servicing and maintaining propane autogas vehicles safely. The NAFTC recently earned its 5th National Excellence in Training Award from the Automotive Training Manager’s Council for the Propane Autogas Vehicle Technician Training. The NAFTC developed the Propane Autogas Vehicle Technician Training through funding from the Propane Education and Research Council (PERC) to educate, train and prepare pre-...

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    PERC Showcases Propane Mower Benefits at 2016 GIE+EXPO

    WASHINGTON (October 17, 2016) – The Propane Education & Research Council (PERC) is teaching commercial landscape contractors and outdoor power equipment dealers how to hit it out of the park with commercial propane mowers and equipment at the GIE+EXPO this week in Louisville, Kentucky. The Green Industry Equipment Expo (GIE) is the largest trade show for outdoor power equipment, lawn and landscape equipment, light construction and other equipment displays in 750 exhibits throughout the Kentucky Exposition Center. Nineteen additional acres of outdoor demonstrations ajoin the Expo Center. Located at Booth No. 7094, PERC will showcase propane equipment from many highly regarded OEMs and demonstrate to contractors why a propane mower fleet is their major league choice to out perform any other offerings in the commercial...

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    Energy Distribution Partners Welcomes General Manager and Operations Manager at CMP Energy

    (October 17, 2016) Chicago, Illinois-based Energy Distribution Partners (“EDP”) recently announced that Lori Murawski has joined the company as a General Manager for CMP Energy in Philipsburg, Pennsylvania, and Robert (Bobby) Mitchell has joined EDP as Operations Manager at CMP Energy. CMP Energy which provides propane, home heating oil and HVAC service to residential customers across central Pennsylvania was recently acquired by EDP. Murawski, a CPA, has been with CMP Energy since 2012, most recently as Chief Financial Officer. After completing her accounting degree at Penn State University she worked in public accounting for several years before joining a division of the H.J. Heinz Company. She later helped take the AquaPenn Spring Water Company public on the NYSE. AquaPenn was then purchased by Group Danone...

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  • Feature Articles

    Propane’s Night at the Museum

    On September 10, 2016, some 120 propane industry members gathered at the National Museum of Industrial History (NMIH) in Bethlehem, Pa. to celebrate the newly-opened propane exhibit housed at the site that was formerly part of the Bethlehem Steel facility. The mill area, now in disrepair, has an 18,000-sq-ft structure that stands out from the rest—a completely renovated and repurposed modern building that features four galleries dedicated to the preservation of artifacts of the industries that have made America strong. Each gallery is devoted to either the propane, iron and steel, machinery, or silk industry, and more than 200 artifacts are on display that provide a wealth of information for current and future generations, who can observe the rich history of American industry. Reinforcing that,...

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    London Autogas Taxi Project Receives Positive Reviews

    Early results of an autogas taxi pilot project in London are showing positive results in several areas, including fuel cost, maintenance cost, and environmental benefits. Autogas Ltd. (Sambourne, England), a joint venture between Shell U.K. and Calor Gas, has been in business for 16 years, with a network of LPG refueling pumps selling Calor Gas propane through Shell fuel stations. The company’s website states its mission is to “save motorists from fuel poverty and help us all breathe easier.” Paul Beesley, marketing manager for Autogas Ltd., said businesses and residents in the United Kingdom have been increasingly focused on improving air quality in urban areas. The government, under a program called the Birmingham NOx Reduction Champions Project, provided funding for businesses to use toward air...

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