July 23, 2021
The 2021 Employee Training is currently being held from now through August. IPGA offers certified and non-certified employee training for those employed in the propane industry or looking to obtain propane training certification. To make training more accessible to everyone, classes are held in multiple locations. Classes are open to members and non-members and pre-registration is necessary. Consider sending your employees to this valuable training. Click here to learn more.
Weather Trends Update
by Meteorologist John Bagioni, Fax-Alert Weather Service, LLC
 
The persistent cooler than normal pattern that developed during early July is in the process of morphing into a significant, hotter than normal regime to finish out the month. Excessively hot conditions will continue to build across portions of the central and northern Plains in the short-term, and some of the hot weather will overspread and dominate the Indiana-Michigan-Ohio areas over the next 2 weeks. Triple digit heat will become common just to the west of the Indiana-Michigan-Ohio areas, and there is some potential for a surge of excessive heat levels to spill eastward into the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes region.
 
The 100-plus degree heat indexes will likely be in play across a good deal of Indiana, with some spotty areas of near 100 degree heat indexes across parts of Ohio and Michigan. There are times the modeling underplays these hot patterns, and I would be wary of this heat wave setup verifying at higher levels. The bottom line is that we are going to see a very impressive flip from the cooler than normal conditions of early and mid-July with a solidly hotter, if not excessively hot, pattern evolving neat week. Cooling demand I likely to spike big time! Click here for the full report.
 
Meteorologist John Bagioni | FAX-ALERT WEATHER SERVICE, LLC 
(860) 675-9091 | john@faxalertweather.com
Town Hall Meetings
Save the date for the IPGA Town Hall meetings scheduled for this fall. Registration will open late summer 2021. Please check back for updates. Meetings will be held 6:00pm – 8:00pm.

North: Monday, October 11
BoatHouse Restaurant
700 Park Ave., Winona Lake, IN 46590

South: Tuesday, October 12
Schnitzelbank Restaurant
393 3rd Ave., Jasper, IN 47546

Central: Wednesday, October 13
The Bridgewater Club
3535 E 161st St., Carmel, IN 46033
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International Energy Code Development
The International Code Council announced this week that code change proposals were being accepted for the development of the 2024 edition of the International Energy Conservation Code (IECC). The development process for this highly important code was recently changed to a consensus standards process that allows a more balanced influence on the outcome. Proposals to the IECC will be accepted through October 12.

The IECC is the most widely adopted energy conservation code in the U.S. and it also references key standards such as ASHRAE 90.1 for commercial construction and ANSI/RESNET/ICC 301 for residential construction. There has been much attention paid to the IECC in recent years due to the efforts of various interest groups to influence the requirements in their favor.

Several past proposals have focused on “electrification” of buildings to the detriment of fuels like propane in efforts to “de-carbonize” the built environment. However, the most recent editions of the IECC do have a “source energy” pathway that accounts for the true energy use and carbon generation in bringing electrical energy to a building. NPGA is focused on ensuring that codes utilize source energy as the basis by which energy conservation is measured.

For more information, please contact Bruce Swiecicki.
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