The Gas Technology Institute (GTI) 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.
Encouragement for the gas industry to increase R&D came from the Federal Power Commission in that year.
[2] 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.
[4] In 2006, the IIT building that formerly housed the institute became home to Shimer College, which took up residence there after moving from Waukegan.