PROPANE EDUCATION
& RESEARCH COUNCIL
Virtual
February 8, 2023

Call to Order
Chairman Stuart Weidie

Chairman’s Report
Chairman Stuart Weidie

Chief Executive
Officer’s Report
Tucker Perkins, President & CEO

Industry Relations
Report
Bridget Kidd, SVP,
Industry Relations

New Concept
State Rebate –
2023 Illinois PERC
Intern Rebate
Program
Docket 23834

• With the propane industry having difficulty finding quality employees
to service their customers, Illinois PERC sees potential at the high
school and college level to bring in new employees.
• This program establishes a financial partnership for propane
marketers to hire these students as interns for the summer.
• Illinois PERC will reimburse the marketer for half the intern’s hourly
rate up to $7.50/hour for a maximum of 480 hours. The marketer
will be responsible for the remainder of the hourly rate.
• Project goal:
• Draw new employees into the propane industry that may not
have considered a career in the field previously.
2023 Illinois PERC Intern Rebate Program

Docket 23834 – New Concept State Rebate
2023 Illinois PERC Intern Rebate Program
Amount $118,100
Applicant Illinois Propane Education and Research Council
This program establishes a financial partnership for propane
marketers to hire high school and college aged students as interns
for the summer. Illinois PERC will reimburse the marketer for half
the intern’s hourly rate up to $7.50/hour, for a maximum of 480
hours, with the goal of bringing new employees into the propane
industry that may not have considered a career in the industry
previously.

New Concept
State Rebate –
2023 Propane Energy
Mix Campaign
Docket 23876

2023 Propane Energy Mix Campaign
• This project is intended to educate consumers, key decision
makers and the media about the importance of propane and the
many safe and efficient uses for propane as an environmentally
friendly energy source.
• The project will energize and encourage marketers to leverage the
campaign in their markets through participation in local events,
local home builder meetings, and local media and consumer
awareness opportunities.
• Direct objectives: measurable social and mainstream activities;
earned media opportunities through events such as “Road Shows”
and school board association exhibitions; home builder displays;
and opportunities to appear on public affairs programming.

Docket 23876 – New Concept State Rebate
2023 Propane Energy Mix Campaign
Amount $100,000
Applicant Kentucky Propane Education and Research Council
This project is intended to educate consumers, key decision makers
and the media about the importance of propane and the many safe
and efficient uses for propane as an environmentally friendly energy
source. Marketers will be encouraged to leverage the campaign in
their markets through participation in local events, local home
builder meetings, and local media and consumer awareness
opportunities.

2022 Workforce
Outreach
Change Order – Docket 23360

The Technical School Grant Program offers $10,000 to technical schools and
community colleges throughout the country who are looking to expand their
classroom lab and curriculum to include a propane-specific program. The first
change order for this program covered the cost of approving an additional 20
schools. After sorting through the 80 applications received for the 2023 program,
there are five more schools with strong applications that we would like to accept
into the program. As part of the program, each awarded school also receives a
regulator board as a teaching tool from PERC. We are requesting a second
change order for an additional $90,000 to accept these five schools into the
program and build the regulator boards for the remaining 25 schools that were
accepted after the first change order.
Docket 23360
2022 Workforce Outreach
Change Order $90,000
Amount $720,000

Finance & Data
Report
Shawn Stack, VP,
Finance, Data & Technology

2023 Market Data &
Research Program
Docket 23826

2023 Market Data & Research Program
• 2022 Propane Sales Report vendor - $75,000
• 2023 propane forecast and state profiles update - $140,000
• Data software and infrastructure support - $117,000
• Data set acquisition and related support - $93,700
• Data process consulting for automation strategy, advanced
visualizations and support - $100,000

The 2023 Market Data & Research Program supports the core data
and market research activities including the production of the
2022 Propane Sales Report, 2023 propane forecast model update,
2023 state profiles update, and the infrastructure and support to
maintain current commitments of the program including supply and
demand data.
Docket 23826
2023 Market Data & Research Program
Amount $525,700

Industry and
Public Comments

Old Business

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April 26
Nashville, TN
Next Council Meeting
May 9-10
Charlotte, NC
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