Home & Work

Millions of people across North America use propane every day for home heating, hot water, and cooking. But that’s not all! You may be surprised at the breadth of applications for propane at home and at work.

Propane has long been recognized as a green energy, with its low carbon content, ideal for helping individuals, businesses, communities, and governments cut greenhouse gas emissions, improve air quality, and protect the environment.

Did you know:

• Furnaces powered by propane are among the lowest emitters of greenhouse gases (GHG), especially when compared with electric heat (heat pumps, furnaces, and baseboard heaters) or fuel oil furnaces?
• Propane-fuelled tankless water heaters—instant water heaters that do not use a hot-water storage tank—produce only one-third of the GHG created by comparable electric models?¹
• Propane-fuelled radiant heat cuts down on dust and allergens in a home or office since there is no need for a fan or blower?
• Grilling with propane cuts carbon dioxide emissions in half compared to grilling with charcoal?
• Propane flame can be used in poultry houses to sanitize house floors, eliminating dangerous microbes and bacteria, such as those responsible for the avian flu?

Propane is a versatile and excellent green energy choice for countless applications.

At Home - Outside, it’s perfect for barbeques, corn pot burners, fire pits, hot tubs, mosquito control, patio heaters, pool heaters, generators, and weed removal. Indoors, it’s a great alternative for clothes dryers, fireplaces, freezers, furnaces, lighting, radiant floor heating, refrigerators, space heaters, stoves and even toilets!

At Work - Propane is used on farms, to controls pests and weeds, dry crops, and power irrigation systems. It’s used in factories, warehouses, and communities to fuel forklifts, construction equipment, heating and cooling equipment, and to pave roads. Propane is often the favoured choice among top chefs for the appliances in commercial kitchens. And it’s among the cleanest alternatives for light duty fleets, ideal for police cars, taxis, buses.

Using technology that exists today, propane can make major and immediate contributions to GHG reduction and cleaner air!

Check out this website for many more interesting facts about using propane at home and at work: www.buildwithpropane.com

Thanks to the Propane Education and Research Council (PERC) for contributions to this page, www.usepropane.com.

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¹ Source: PERC Fact Sheet – Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Home, 2007