Sorry if I'm threadjacking, but I have a tangential question.

I have a 7,500w portable generator that can run gasoline or liquid propane gas (LPG). My house has an external receptacle for a generator that hooks up to the main panel and we have a manual transfer switch to switch off the utility company power and use the generator power. We have an AUX panel that is hooked up to the essential functions: oil burner, well pump, septic system pump, fridge, and a few receptacles in the house.

I also have a 120-lbs LPG tank that I use to power my kitchen range/oven and only that one appliance. We get LPG delivered from a local fuel company (Patterson Fuel) and I am pretty sure they own the tank as it was there when we bought the house years ago and we keep using that same company for LPG deliveries.

We are thinking of switching to an electric kitchen range/oven which would mean we no longer need the LPG. Does anyone know if the fuel company would let us continue to use the LPG tank for our generator? We only lose power once or twice a year at most (so far) so there could be stretches where we don't use any LPG at all. As such, we'd hardly be worth the company having as a customer.

Presumably we'd need to ask Patterson to install an attachment to the existing LPG tank that we could then hook up to our generator.

I'd love to be able to use LPG instead of regular gasoline as this would be more convenient and easier to manage.

Thanks for any tips.