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LCF Member in the News: AmeriGas to Distribute Renewable LPG

Wednesday, February 16, 2022

Valley Forge, Pennsylvania (Feb. 15, 2022) — UGI Corporation announced that its subsidiary, AmeriGas Propane, the nation’s largest retail propane marketer, has entered into an agreement with Global Clean Energy Holdings Inc. to purchase and distribute renewable LPG. AmeriGas will leverage its supply and logistics infrastructure and sales and marketing teams to market and distribute renewable LPG to new and existing customers primarily in the state of California.

As part of a multi-year agreement, GCEH’s Bakersfield biorefinery will process up to 15,000 barrels of renewable feedstock per day, including their proprietary energy crop, camelina, to produce renewable fuels including bioLPG. This biorefinery, which is expected to begin operations in the first half of calendar year 2022, is projected to produce approximately 13 million gallons of renewable LPG in its first year, making it the largest commercially available renewable propane production facility to date in the United States. Under the distribution partnership, AmeriGas will be the long-term exclusive buyer of renewable LPG from GCEH’s Bakersfield biorefinery.

“We are thrilled to partner with GCEH to bring renewable LPG to customers in a rapidly developing market where there is strong demand for biofuels and a focus on environmentally sustainable energy solutions,” said Roger Perreault, president and CEO of UGI Corporation. “This long-term agreement demonstrates continued progress on our environmental, social and governance (ESG) initiatives and strategy to invest in renewables. It is another great example of our ongoing efforts to provide innovative, low-carbon, sustainable energy solutions to customers.”

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