Fusion concepts in future energy landscapes

Overview

Fusion offers potential future energy abundance yet is at the same time highly challenging. In the context of a fusion future full of opportunity but also complexity, this programme aims to:

• map out future energy ecosystems and uses of fusion expanding beyond grid electricity
• explore whether fusion will replace technologies
• examine whether fusion will augment or compete with other technologies
• explore how the development of fusion power plant concepts is affected

Programme deliverables

The programme will generate a series of reports and other inputs to bring information and expert advice to help guide future strategies, and research and development for pilot fusion power plants. Topics include:

• future energy demands and ecosystems around the world, how renewables and storage might evolve, need and types of industrial heat as well as electricity generation
• deployability factors for fusion power plants in various locations including cost, opportunity cost, supply chain needs, local infrastructure requirements, aspects of co-location of industrial processes using fusion heat, technical complexity factors, and the level of confidence in a given concept.
• how different characteristics of fusion power plants might improve the situation

How to get involved

You can contribute in two ways:

• respond to our calls for expert input through short tasks lasting a few months
• join our advisory panels as an individual expert from academia, public sector research establishments (PSREs) or industry

We also welcome informal contact and input on the themes described.

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