Fusion Industry Association

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Fusion Industry Association
AbbreviationFIA
Established2018;7 years ago (2018)
TypeTrade association
Location
  • Washington, D.C.
Membership25 (2020)
CEO
 Andrew Holland
Website FIA

The Fusion Industry Association is a US-registered non-profit independent trade association for the international fusion industry. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] It is headquartered in Washington, D.C. It was founded in 2018 to advocate for policies to accelerate the arrival of fusion power. [8] [9] [10] Its CEO is Andrew Holland, former Chief Operating Officer of the American Security Project. [11] The Fusion Industry Association has 42 fusion company members and over 100 affiliate members, including engineering firms, suppliers, utilities, law firms, cleantech organizations, academic institutions, and various professional services with business in the fusion industry. The emergence of the Fusion Industry Association can be traced back to the 2013 publication of a white paper on fusion energy by the American Security Project. [12] [13]

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The Fusion Industry Association's objective is to support the global fusion industry by: building and supporting public-private partnership programs that allow for collaboration between industry and national labs & universities; ensuring regulatory certainty; and ensuring fusion is on a level playing field compared to other clean energy technologies. [1] [14] [15] [16] The FIA is seen as one of the main drivers behind the development of fusion pilot plants [17] and supported the fusion energy public-private partnership amendment in H.R.133 - Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, which authorized $325 million over 5 years for the partnership program to build fusion demonstration facilities. [18] The Fusion Industry Association has also played a role in the formation of the Congressional Fusion Caucus. [19]

Challenges facing the Fusion Industry Association include attracting the funding necessary to create a commercial fusion power industry; furthering the private sector's relationship with the public sector; internationalizing a Global North-dominated energy development sector by bridging the North–south divide, and the credibility of some of its members. [10]

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References

  1. 1 2 Roma, Amy; Desai, Sachin (2018-11-12). "Fusion Innovation Crosses Milestone with Launch of Fusion Industry Association". New Nuclear. Retrieved 2020-02-25.
  2. ↑ Tennenbaum, Jonathan (2021-01-16). "Race is on to commercialize fusion energy". Asia Times. Retrieved 2021-01-30.
  3. ↑ Tennenbaum, Jonathan (2021-01-18). "America on a new fast track to fusion energy". Asia Times. Retrieved 2021-01-30.
  4. ↑ Tennenbaum, Jonathan (2021-01-20). "Fusion companies aiming at trillion dollar market". Asia Times. Retrieved 2021-01-30.
  5. ↑ Holland, Andrew (2020-11-13). "Political and commercial prospects for inertial fusion energy". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 378 (2184): 20200008. Bibcode:2020RSPTA.37800008H. doi: 10.1098/rsta.2020.0008 . PMID   33040662. S2CID   222277887.
  6. ↑ "Fusion Industry Association Announces Independent Incorporation and Expansion". AP NEWS. 2021-05-05. Retrieved 2021-05-20.
  7. ↑ Carayannis, Elias; Draper, John; Crumpton, Charles (2022). "Reviewing fusion energy to address climate change by 2050". Journal of Energy and Development. 47 (1).
  8. ↑ Nehl, C. L.; Umstattd, R. J.; Regan, W. R.; Hsu, S. C.; McGrath, P. B. (2019-10-08). "Retrospective of the ARPA-E ALPHA Fusion Program". Journal of Fusion Energy. 38 (5–6): 519. arXiv: 1907.09921 . Bibcode:2019arXiv190709921N. doi:10.1007/s10894-019-00226-4. ISSN   0164-0313. S2CID   198179698.
  9. ↑ Michaels, Daniel (2020-02-06). "Fusion Startups Step In to Realize Decades-Old Clean Power Dream". Wall Street Journal. ISSN   0099-9660 . Retrieved 2020-02-17.
  10. 1 2 Carayannis, Elias G.; Draper, John; Bhaneja, Balwant (2020-10-02). "Towards Fusion Energy in the Industry 5.0 and Society 5.0 Context: Call for a Global Commission for Urgent Action on Fusion Energy". Journal of the Knowledge Economy. 12 (4): 1891–1904. doi: 10.1007/s13132-020-00695-5 . ISSN   1868-7873. PMC   7529587 .
  11. ↑ "Andrew Holland". American Security Project. Retrieved 2023-08-29.
  12. ↑ "Fusion White Paper – 10 Year Plan for American Energy Security". American Security Project. July 10, 2014. Retrieved 2020-02-17.
  13. ↑ "Fusion White Paper – 10 Year Plan for American Energy Security". Scribd. Retrieved 2020-02-17.
  14. ↑ Roma, Amy C.; Desai, Sachin S. (2020). The Regulation of Fusion – A Practical and Innovation-Friendly Approach (PDF). Washington, D.C.: Hogan Lovells. p. 4.
  15. ↑ Holland, Andrew (2020-06-12). "Fusion Regulatory White Paper". Fusion Industry Assn. Retrieved 2020-10-07.
  16. ↑ Holland, Andrew. "Fusion energy needs smart federal government regulation". The Washington Times. Retrieved 2020-10-10.
  17. ↑ "National Academies calls for a fusion pilot plant". Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. 2021-04-14. Retrieved 2021-04-15.
  18. ↑ Holland, Andrew (2021-01-05). "Fusion Legislation Signed into Law". Fusion Industry Association. Retrieved 2021-01-30.
  19. ↑ "FIA Congratulates Congressional Bipartisan Fusion Caucus". Fusion Industry Assn. 2021-02-19. Retrieved 2021-02-26.
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