UGI Energy Services Blog

It’s officially winter! If you’re from the northeast U.S., snowstorms are likely headed your way. Though they can be magical and exciting, storms and other bad weather can lead to power and other outages. Outages can quickly become dangerous, sometimes lasting days or longer.

Outages can affect entire communities. They can disrupt communication, water availability, and transportation; close businesses like grocery stores, gas stations, banks, and more; cause food and water contamination; and prevent the use of medical devices or medicine refrigeration.

As a business owner, being prepared and knowing what to do before, during, and after a power outage can help keep your staff and customers safe.

As the trusted energy supplier fornatural gas, liquid fuels, and electricity for 42,000 customer locations across the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern US, we want you to know we’re here for you. We want to ensure you you’re working with a solid, respectable, reliable company. If you have any questions, issues, concerns, or suggestions, we want to hear them. So, when you do, how can you connect with us?

At UGIES, we serve a variety of businesses of all different types and sizes and we value our small business customers. During the first week of May (May 1^st – 7^th), we honor Small Business Week. During this week, entrepreneurs and small business owners are recognized and celebrated for their accomplishments. According to the Small Business Association, a small business is a firm having fewer than 500 employees. A recent SBA statistic from 2021 shows that there are approximately 32 million small businesses in the US which account for 99.9 percent of all US businesses. With this information, it is clear that small businesses make up a very large part of the businesses we frequent and serve.