UGI Corporation announced that its subsidiary, AmeriGas Propane 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 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 States1. Under the distribution partnership, AmeriGas will be the long-term exclusive buyer of renewable LPG from GCEH's Bakersfield biorefinery. Renewable LPG, also known as renewable-propane or bioLPG, is chemically identical to today's fossil LPG (C3H8) and therefore can be used with existing infrastructure.

It has up to 80% lower carbon footprint than that of conventional LPG and a much lower carbon intensity than conventional diesel or gasoline fuels.