UTD - Utilization Technology Development, NFP

UTD is a not-for-profit, utility-directed organization with a mission to identify, select, fund, and oversee research projects resulting in innovative customer solutions which maximize the environmental performance, affordability, efficiency and safety of equipment and processes that use natural gas and renewable energy resources. UTD helps utilities and their customers adopt new technologies that reduce costs, save energy, enable efficient fuel choices, further integrate natural gas with renewable energy resources, and achieve superior environmental performance. UTD consists of 22 utilities serving more than 35 million gas customers in North America. For two decades, UTD has invested millions of dollars in research and development that led to new technology solutions and advanced technologies and products to reduce energy costs and greenhouse gas emissions, increase energy efficiency, enhance end-use resiliency, achieve superior environmental performance, integrate renewable energy, and increase customer choice. UTD closely collaborates with leading researchers, governmental agencies, entrepreneurs, and others to take innovative and disruptive technologies and product prototypes in energy systems from the laboratory to the market, while prioritizing safety, reliability, and affordability for the people and communities it serves.