Utilization Technology Development adds KeySpan Corp

Pipeline & Gas Journal, June, 2007

KeySpan Corp. has become the tenth member company of the Utilization Technology Development, NFP (UTD), a nonprofit company that supports a portfolio of near- to mid-term technology development projects for residential, commercial and industrial markets in efforts to offer customers more gas product options. UTD funds a wide variety of natural-gas-based projects, technologies and services.

"We're very excited to add KeySpan as our tenth member," said Ron Snedic, UTD President. "They'll help guide development of programs that address issues of growing concern for the energy industry and its customers. Those challenges include an increasing focus on the environment via emission reductions, addressing volatile energy prices with efficiency improvements and addressing rising manufacturing costs by designing lower cost products."

UTD was established in 2004 in Illinois to assist voluntarily funded, collaborative research related to end use applications. Participating natural gas distribution companies direct the strategy and project funding. The technology portfolio includes increased-efficiency gas equipment and appliances, industrial process and combustion systems, and combined heat-and-power (CHP) systems. Program management services are provided by Gas Technology Institute (GTI), which also performs a significant portion of the research work.