Gas Technology Institute
42°01′12″N 87°55′21″W / 42.01995°N 87.92241°W / 42.01995; -87.92241 The Gas Technology Institute is an American non-profit research and development organization which develops, demonstrates, and licenses new energy technologies for private and public clients, with a particular focus on the natural gas industry.
GTI is located in Des Plaines, Illinois.
History
The Gas Technology Institute has its origins in several different organizations.
The Institute of Gas Technology was founded in 1941 at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT).
The Gas Research Institute was founded in 1976 by and ad hoc committee made up of members form the American Gas Association and the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America. Encouragement for the gas industry to increase R&D came from the Federal Power Commission in that year. GRI incorporated as an independent non-profit in Illinois on July 8, 1976. The Institute sponsored research with funding derived from a surcharge on shipments of natural gas sold by the interstate pipelines, thus passing along R&D costs to gas consumers. In 2000, the funding mechanism that supported the Gas Research Institute was phased out. That year, the Institute of Gas Technology and the Gas Research Institute combined to form the Gas Technology Institute.
In 2006, the IIT building that formerly housed the institute became home to Shimer College, which took up residence there after moving from Waukegan.
References
External links
This article uses material from the Wikipedia English article Gas Technology Institute, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license ("CC BY-SA 3.0"); additional terms may apply (view authors). Content is available under CC BY-SA 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.
®Wikipedia is a registered trademark of the Wiki Foundation, Inc. Wiki English (DUHOCTRUNGQUOC.VN) is an independent company and has no affiliation with Wiki Foundation.