Partnering with world-class manufacturers, the Propane Education & Research Council has helped commercialize an impressive portfolio of clean and efficient propane products that includes vehicles, commercial mowers, industrial and irrigation engines, business scale water heaters, combined heat and power units, and a variety of mobile and stationary generators, to name a few.
These investments in innovation are focused on meeting consumer desires for affordable equipment, appliances, and vehicles that deliver performance with a reduced environmental footprint. Of course, for the companies that fund PERC, these innovations also grow demand for propane and bring new customers to their businesses. Everyone wins.
At the World LP Gas Forum, meeting in Miami Oct. 28-30, PERC and our manufacturing partners will showcase these new products to a global audience with the goal of opening opportunities to expand the customer base and ultimately create economies of scale that promise to lower production costs to benefit consumers here and abroad.
During the forum, PERC’s new video series, Clean American Innovation, will present testimony from several PERC manufacturing partners: Exmark, Freightliner Custom Chassis Corp., Generac, Kohler, Marathon, Origin Engines, Power Solutions International (PSI), and Roush CleanTech.
Of course, not every exciting new propane product is made in America. Creativity knows no boundaries. Because propane is used on every continent except Antarctica, at the gathering in Miami, I expect to see innovations and to learn from entrepreneurs from around the planet. They’ll be there. That’s been my experience since PERC hosted the WLPGA’s first Global Technology Conference in Chicago nearly a decade ago.
This forum deserves our attention for many reasons. The opportunity to showcase propane technology on a global scale is just one of them. And so is the chance to learn from others.
-RWW
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