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In-depth feature stories examining the trends, challenges and innovations shaping the propane and LPG industry.

  • PERC Assessment Increase To Take Effect Nov. 1, 2016

    During its July meeting, the Propane Education & Council (PERC) approved an assessment increase from $0.004 to $0.0045 per gallon. The increase goes into effect Nov. 1, 2016. The additional revenue from the assessment increase is projected to be about $3 million. This will help fund programs in 2017, including the consumer education campaign, commercialization projects, and the Partnership with States Program.
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  • Energy Distribution Partners Receives Excellence in Risk Management Award

    (October 26, 2016) – Chicago, Illinois-based Energy Distribution Partners (EDP) has received Energi’s 2016 Excellence in Risk Management Award for being a leader in the implementation of Energi safety and risk management programs. Energi, a leading provider of Insurance and Risk Management Programs, recognized EDP as being the “Best of the Best” within the Energy industry at the Risk Management Summit in Las Vegas, Nevada, on October 5, 2016. Energy Distribution Partners’ focused commitment to safety, implementation of risk management best practices, and willingness to learn and apply new safety techniques has enabled the company to set a future standard of excellence amongst industry peers. About Energy Distribution Partners Energy Distribution Partners is a growing company in America's fast-changing energy landscape – with deep experience…
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  • Propane Industry Uses Pink Delivery Trucks To Support Breast Cancer Organizations Nationwide

    During October, Breast Cancer Awareness month, BPN continues its series of profiles of the many propane companies throughout the United States that support a breast cancer-related organization or cause. BPN is pleased to highlight Griffin Oil & Propane, a local, family owned business in Virginia, that has been serving thousands of residential and commercial propane customers in the City of Suffolk and Southampton, Isle of Wight, Sussex and Surry Counties, and surrounding areas since 1938. (To read additional profiles of propane companies throughout the U.S. who are making a positive difference in the communities they serve go to BPN’s Facebook and Twitter pages.) Several years ago, as a precursor to Breast Cancer Awareness month, Griffin Oil & Propane hit the road with a striking pink…
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  • Crestwood Services & NCPGA Announce Fund to Assist Victims of Hurricane Matthew

    Kansas City, MO (October 24, 2016) – Crestwood Services, the Supply & Logistics unit of Crestwood Equity Partners LP, recently announced the establishment of Propane Aid: North Carolina, a fund to assist victims of the flooding and damage caused by Hurricane Matthew. The fund, which will be managed by the North Carolina Propane Gas Association (NCPGA), will help consumers who rely on propane to heat their homes, as well as workers in the propane industry who were impacted by the storm and flooding. John Jessup, executive director of the NCPGA, said Crestwood donated $6,000, which is roughly the equivalent of a transport load of propane, to launch Propane Aid: North Carolina. The money will be managed and disbursed through the NCPGA to fund expenses such…
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  • 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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  • 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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  • Exports Become Wildest of Wild Cards Affecting Propane Prices

    By Pat Thornton … When domestic propane production began to increase in 2008, the United States started to rapidly become a net exporter of propane. As the capacity to export propane rose, we began to see exports reach new highs. By April of 2014, exports were going at a rate of 414,000 barrels per day and were up to 636,000 barrels per day by April 2015. The U.S. exported 886,000 barrels per day in February 2016, a new high that is more than eight times the export volume five years earlier, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA). As 2016 has progressed, EIA has reported exports closer to 600,000 barrels per day through much of the spring and summer and more recently 424,000 barrels per…
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