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A new study released by the Propane Education & Research Council (PERC) measures the performance of various coatings on underground propane tanks.
U.S. energy leader T. Boone Pickens highlighted propane as an important part of the Pickens Plan, citing propane’s environmentally friendly profile and ample production in the United States.
With summer just around the corner, you almost can hear the buzz of Americans rescuing their patio furniture from storage, planting gardens, and dusting off that culinary symbol of summer: the backyard grill.
The incoming Executive Committee will lead propane industry into the National Energy Conversation.
Share details about on-road propane refueling stations in your area and help expand the Alternative Fueling Station Locator, a database managed by the Alternative Fuels & Advanced Vehicles Data Center.
The Environmental Protection Agency is reminding operators of facilities that “use, produce, or store a regulated substance in any one process” that they must submit an updated risk management plan by June 2009, as required by the Clean Air Act.
The propane industry has helped develop guidance for emergency 911 operators who receive reports of a propane emergency. A guide card, produced by the APCO Institute, features questions operators can ask callers who report a propane emergency and safety instructions they can give them.
Times may be tough, but spending constraints have sharpened homeowners’ interest in investing to make their homes more energy efficient. This was one of the key findings of a recent survey sponsored by the Propane Education & Research Council (PERC) and conducted by the Opinion Research Corporation.
For much of the United States, high heating bills have become as synonymous with winter as snowplows and ski trips. But this winter, a new home energy technology will allow homeowners to turn home heating into power generation.
With the weather cooling down across the country, home heating and energy bills are top-of-mind for millions of homeowners. And despite inevitable fluctuations in fuel prices, there is one thing that remains a constant: the superior heat and efficiency of propane.
The propane industry today launched the latest version of a fleet cost calculator designed to help fleet managers make a business case for using propane-fueled vehicles.
Distributed generation is one of the market areas with the highest potential to increase the use of propane technology. Distributed generation represents about 14 percent of all PERC research and development investments. This program will focus those efforts on the demonstration of distributed generation technologies using propane as the fuel source with a specific focus on technologies that are close to commercialization.
Know builders that loyally use propane as a home energy source and have found innovative ways to use propane? Nominate them for the 2009 PROPANE Exceptional Energy® Homebuilder Awards!