Ohio Propane, Clean Energy for Over 100 Years
According to the Energy Policy Act of 1992, Propane is a low-carbon fuel alternative, producing far fewer emissions than the equivalent amount of electricity generated from the U.S. grid.
Ohio Relies on Propane
Thousands of rural Ohio residents are cleaning up the environment using propane for home heating and powering a number of propane appliances and generators.
Efficient Propane Appliances Help Contribute to Meeting Ohio's Energy Goals in Several Ways:
Propane appliances are known for their high efficiency, performing the same tasks as traditional appliances while using less energy. This helps reduce overall energy consumption across residential, commercial, and industrial sectors, aligning with Ohio’s goals for energy conservation.
Propane is a cleaner fuel than other fossil fuels like coal or oil. Propane appliances, when used instead of less efficient or more polluting alternatives, can help lower carbon emissions, contributing to Ohio’s efforts to improve air quality.
Propane is used for heating, water heating, cooking, and more. It’s versatile and a valuable energy resource for both urban and rural areas of Ohio. Additionally, propane is not dependent on a centralized grid, offering reliability in areas where access to electricity may be limited or during power outages.
While propane itself is a low-carbon fossil fuel, efforts are underway to produce renewable propane from sustainable sources such as biomass, waste, or renewable electricity. Transitioning to renewable propane will further align with Ohio’s renewable energy goals.
Investing in efficient propane appliances can lead to cost savings for consumers and businesses over time through reduced energy bills. This can stimulate economic growth and support Ohio’s local businesses.
Propane
Low Carbon Green Fuel
Annual CO₂ Emissions by Fuel Type & Volume
Source: EIA.Gov
Fuel Type
Wood
Fuel Oil
Electric
(Coal Based)
Propane
Ave. Household Use Volume
3 Cords
505 gal
10,284 kWh
611 gal
Ave. lbs of CO₂ Emitted
CO₂ Emissions
14,220
CO₂ Emissions
11,490
CO2 Emissions
8,229
CO₂ Emissions
7,749
Ohio Fuel Diversity Includes Propane
Ohio Science Teacher Explains Energy Waste
Ohio Officials Turn to Propane Vehicles
Ohio city officials, colleges, manufacturers and fleet operators comment on propane’s usefulness in the state.
Kent State University’s propane fuel cells
Kent State fuel cell research team proving the benefits of propane fuel cells to generate electricity.
Biodiesel Plays a Major Role in Bringing Fuel Diversity to Ohio
Clean fuels like BioDiesel and Propane are cleaning up Ohio’s environment. Ohio needs more fuel diversity than solar and wind energy.
Propane Decarbonizes
Ohio is propane country. Propane is abundant and clean which is why numerous fleets including busses, trucks, city vehicles and commercial lawn mowers run on propane.
Ohio's Clean Energy Initiative
Thousands of rural Ohio residents are cleaning up the environment with a clean energy–propane.
Ohio Officials Turn to Propane Vehicles
Ohio city officials, colleges, manufacturers and fleet operators comment on propane’s usefulness in the state.
Ohio’s Clean Fuel Path
The EPA acknowledges propane as the most widely used alternative fuel. It’s used in heating homes, appliances and running over 30,000 vehicles in Ohio.
Ohio Propane Cleaner than Our Electric Grid
Carbon intensity is the total carbon emissions (or total carbon footprint) embodied in an energy carrier such as propane or electricity right from the source to the point of use. For example, propane’s carbon intensity would include the total carbon dioxide emissions from the production, transport, storage, and combustion of propane. Electricity’s carbon intensity includes the total carbon dioxide emissions from extracting resources (such as coal, natural gas, materials for solar panels and wind turbines, etc.), generation of electricity, transmission and distribution of electricity, and end use of electricity.
locations where propane vehicles are better than electric vehicles
locations where electric vehicles are better than propane vehicles
The numbers on the chart for each location represent the difference in total CO₂eq (Carbon Dioxide Equivalent) lifecycle emissions in U.S. tons when compared for a single medium-duty vehicle.
Renewable Propane Offers Near-Zero Emissions
What is Renewable Propane Made From?
How is Renewable Propane Made?
In many cases, it’s produced as a co-product of biodiesel production. Feedstocks go through a series of complex treatments and are then merged with hydrogen in a process called hydrogenolysis, which purifies the energy content.
Environmental Benefits
- Landfill diversion: Recycling cooking oil and meat fats into biodiesel and renewable propane helps cut the amount of waste deposited in landfills.
- Carbon reduction: Converting animal fats and cooking oils into renewable propane is also an ultra-low carbon intensity process that can be scaled up. This process is five times better than diesel and gasoline and more than one-and-a-half times better than U.S. grid electricity.
Conventional Propane is a 3-carbon-molecule and is considered low-carbon (EPA). Renewable Propane is nearly zero-carbon and ramping up in production and recognized by the EPA.
Camelina (Camellia Sativa) is one substance that is positioned to be a game changer in the renewable propane industry.
Electric Vehicles Human and Environmental Damage
HARVARD SCIENTIST
EXPOSES ELECTRIC VEHICLE
ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE
Militia in the Congo use children, their parents and other adults to mine the key ingredient in our electric vehicles – Cobalt. Around 75% of the world’s cobalt comes for the Congo.
— Siddharth Kara,
Harvard University, Health
and Human Rights Center
Here is one of thousands of children gathering a sack of THEIR cobalt… and he is on an industrial mining concession.
Electric Vehicles Face Challenges
As the supply chain for electric vehicles grows to keep pace with sales, there are serious human and environmental issues cropping up. Such are the recent news reports of the Harvard scientist who exposed the “… brutal mining practices, militia-controlled mining areas, child labor, and miningrelated deaths in the D.R.C. (Congo), where about 75% of the world’s supply of cobalt is mined.”
Siddharth Kara
Harvard University, Health and Human Rights Center
Siddharth Kara has been researching modern-day slavery, human trafficking and child labor for two decades. In his latest book, Cobalt Red, Kara investigates how cobalt is being extracted by freelance workers who do extremely dangerous labor for the equivalent of just a few dollars a day.
