Mission, Values & History

Mission & Objectives

GTI Energy solves important energy challenges worldwide, turning technology and insights into solutions that create exceptional value for our customers in natural gas and broader clean energy systems.

We are driven by five primary objectives:

  • Expanding supplies of affordable and clean energy
  • Ensuring safe, efficient, resilient and reliable energy infrastructure
  • Delivering solutions for efficient and environmentally responsible use of energy
  • Reducing and managing carbon emissions
  • Advancing energy systems innovations that protect air, land, water and communities while enhancing economic growth

Our Values

Safety

Nothing is more important than the safety of GTI Energy’s employees, visitors to GTI Energy’s facilities, customers using GTI Energy’s services, and members of the communities in which GTI Energy operates

Integrity

GTI Energy will conduct its business in a straightforward, truthful, and transparent manner and in accordance with applicable laws and regulations

People

GTI Energy will provide a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment for its employees, in which they can learn, grow, and address consequential challenges

Quality

GTI Energy will deliver the very best services it can provide, always seeking to delight its customers

Market Focus

GTI Energy will identify important energy industry issues and develop impactful solutions

Teamwork

GTI Energy employees, accountable to one another and our mission, will treat all colleagues and business partners with respect and work cooperatively

History

In April 2021, GTI Energy launched a brand refresh to reflect our growing capabilities, expertise, and impact across energy system transitions. The name was updated from Gas Technology Institute to GTI Energy to more accurately represent the expansive reach of our work built on a legacy of natural gas research.

As a leading technology development organization, GTI Energy’s trusted team works to scale impactful solutions that shape energy transitions by leveraging gases, liquids, infrastructure, and efficiency. We embrace systems thinking, open learning, and collaboration to develop, scale, and deploy the technologies needed for low-carbon, low-cost energy systems. GTI Energy develops innovative solutions that transform lives, economies, and the environment.

In 2016, GTI Energy celebrated our 75th anniversary, having spent the previous seven+ decades developing high-impact technologies and providing technical insight to unlock the potential of natural gas and other energy resources—making them economically and environmentally sustainable while reducing energy costs for consumers.

The organization has achieved many successes over our prolific history, focusing on initiatives aligned with important national priorities. GTI Energy has provided innovative solutions to critical challenges along the entire gas value chain, and improved the ways of producing, transporting, and using energy to benefit the general public.

Gas Technology Institute (GTI) was formed in April 2000 by the combination of two major research and technology development organizations serving the natural gas industry—Gas Research Institute (GRI) and the Institute of Gas Technology (IGT).

GRI was founded in 1976 in response to the Federal Power Commission (FPC) encouraging increased gas research and development (R&D). GRI administered research funding provided by a surcharge on shipments of natural gas sold by the interstate pipelines. At its peak in 1994, GRI administered funds in excess of $212 million.

IGT, founded in 1941, supported the gas industry need to train graduate engineers. IGT was affiliated with the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) as a degree-granting institution from 1941 to 1994, when IGT moved off IIT’s campus to larger facilities in Des Plaines, IL.

As the gas industry evolved, IGT also evolved in parallel and focused on a world-renowned research program with support from many industry sources, including GRI.

As a result of the phasing out of GRI’s funding mechanism, the gas industry encouraged GRI and IGT to combine activities. In 2000, the GRI/IGT combination became official and today, GTI Energy offers the strengths of both predecessors, positioned as a leading research, development and training organization serving the global natural gas industry and energy markets.

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