Collaborations & Partnerships
GTI Energy has more than two decades of experience creating platforms for collaboration to help customers de-risk experimentation with technologies or operational practices and learn from others. We convene partners with deep knowledge and experience to engineer disruptive innovations and then find the solutions they need to deploy and scale that innovation in the market. GTI Energy is proud to lead 10 collaboratives involving hundreds of key stakeholders across several sectors of the energy industry. These collaboratives offer a venue for utilities, technology developers, systems operators, and more to create meaningful impact by leveraging their investments in R&D.
Provides centralized resources that enable the natural gas industry to understand the presence, measurement, and potential impacts of methane in the atmosphere, highlighting the interconnected role of natural gas production, delivery, and use.
Enables utilities to meet energy efficiency goals with less risk and more certainty by accelerating the commercialization and adoption of energy efficient technologies.
Builds a foundation of sound, science-based information on hydrogen emissions and their potential atmospheric and climate impacts.
Accelerates development, demonstration, and deployment of hydrogen and other low-carbon energy technologies and fuels at scale.
Tests and maps practical opportunities for integrating low-carbon solutions within the existing natural gas infrastructure to transition to a net-zero economy.
Advances transparency and credibility of measuring hydrogen’s carbon intensity to drive harmony in the marketplace and reduce carbon emissions.
Improves safety, reliability, and operational efficiency of gas systems through innovative R&D projects.
Accelerates the deployment of safe and cost-effective long-term storage of hydrogen as a viable energy transition solution by combining scientific expertise, market insights, and field experience to address the issue.
Maximizes the environmental performance, affordability, efficiency, and safety of end-use gas equipment and processes, and integration with renewable energy, through innovative R&D projects.
Enables countries and companies with methane reduction targets to report reductions in a consistent, transparent, and verifiable way to help reduce economy-wide global methane emissions.
Creating Impact through Strong Partnerships
GTI Energy has an extensive matrix of partners, investors and clients that encompasses more than 200 organizations. We have a proud legacy of successful projects developed in partnership with:
- State and federal government agencies
- Natural gas utilities and pipeline companies
- Blue-chip industrial companies
- Electric utilities and independent power producers
- Technology developers and equipment manufacturers
- National laboratories
- Private equity and venture-backed companies
GTI Energy works closely with a number of organizations that figure prominently in the energy industry. Highlights include:
- American Council on Renewable Energy (Founding member)
- American Gas Association
- American Public Gas Association
- Ammonia Energy Association
- Association of State Energy Research and Technology Transfer Institutions
- Bioenergy Association of California
- The Business Council for Sustainable Energy
- Carbon Utilization Research Council (member)
- Illinois Alliance for Clean Transportation (steering committee member)
- Chicago Council for Science and Technology (C2ST) (board member)
- Clean Energy Leadership Institute (CELI) (affiliate member)
- Energy Solutions Center (affiliate member)
- European Turbine Network (affiliate member)
- Global Syngas Technology Council (GSTC)
- Gas Processors Association
- Illinois Sustainable Technology Center (board member)
- International Gas Union (U.S. Leadership Team President for the IGU 2015-2018 Triennium)
- International Pittsburgh Coal Conference (board member)
- Interstate Natural Gas Association of America Foundation
- Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR)
- Midwest Energy Association
- National Association of State Energy Officials
- Northeast Gas Association
- RNG Coalition (member)
- Southern Gas Association
- Science Chicago
- US/China Clean Energy Research Center
- Western Energy Institute (service member)
- Wireless Smart Ubiquitous Network (Wi-SUN)
GTI Energy Public Interest Advisory Committee (PIAC)
PIAC provides guidance to GTI Energy through interaction with GTI Energy executive and senior staff on public interest issues and long-term trends that may potentially have impact on GTI Energy, the utility Industry, and the energy and natural gas consumer. PIAC is made up of public utility commissioners, consumer advocates, and environmental, economic, and university-based experts.
PIAC, February 2025
Public Utility Commissioner Membership
- The Honorable Kristie Fiegen, Chair, South Dakota Public Utilities Commission (PIAC Chair)
- The Honorable Jim Huston, Chair, Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission (PIAC Vice-Chair)
- The Honorable Michael Caron, Commissioner, Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority
- The Honorable Stephen DeFrank, Chair, Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission
- The Honorable Gabriella Passidomo, Commissioner, Florida Public Service Commission
- The Honorable Tricia Pridemore, Commissioner, Georgia Public Service Commission and President of NARUC
- The Honorable Lawrence Friedeman, Commissioner, Ohio Public Utilities Commission
- The Honorable Doug Scott, Chair, Illinois Commerce Commission
- The Honorable Dr. Zenon Christodoulou, Commissioner, New Jersey Board of Public Utilities
- The Honorable Milt Doumit, Commissioner, Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission
- The Honorable Katie Sieben, Chair, Minnesota Public Utilities Commission
Public Utility Commissioner Staff Membership
- Mr. Andreas Thanos, Chair, Staff Subcommittee on Gas, NARUC, Policy Specialist, Gas Division, Department of Public Utilities, Massachusetts
Consumer Advocate Membership
- Blaise Michna, Public Utilities Engineer II, Natural Gas Section, Public Staff – North Carolina Utilities Commission
Academic/Technical Membership
- Dr. Carl Blumstein, Director, California Institute for Energy and Environment
- Mr. Steven Nadel, Executive Director, American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy
Economist Membership
- Dr. Larry Blank, Professor of Economics & Associate Director of the Center for Public Utilities, New Mexico State University
Federal/State R&D Agency Membership
- Mr. Christopher Freitas, Sr. Program Manager, Natural Gas Infrastructure R&D, U.S. Department of Energy
Environmental Membership
- Ms. Shannon Angielski, President, Clean Hydrogen Future Coalition
- Ms. Lisa Jacobson, President, Business Council for Sustainable Energy (BCSE)
- Mr. Howard A. Learner, Executive Director, Environmental Law and Policy Center
Municipal Membership
- Mr. Braxton Williams, Senior Vice President, Gas Division, Jackson Energy Authority/APGA
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