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 01/16/25 - Introduced

 SB-80 Energy: Fusion Research and Development Innovation Initiative.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 10/06/2025 02:00 PM

SB80:v93#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Senate Bill

 No. 80

 CHAPTER 334

 An act to add and repeal Chapter 19 (commencing with Section 25997) of Division 15 of the Public Resources Code, relating to energy.

 [
 Approved by

 Governor
 October 03, 2025.

 Filed with

 Secretary of State
 October 03, 2025.
 ]

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 80, Caballero.
 Energy: Fusion Research and Development Innovation Initiative.

Existing law establishes the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, with various responsibilities with respect to developing and implementing the state’s energy policies. Existing law requires, as part of the 2027 edition of the integrated energy policy report, the commission to include an assessment of the potential for fusion energy to contribute to California’s power supply. Existing law requires the commission to carry out technical assessment studies on all forms of energy, including, among others, advanced nuclear powerplant concepts, fusion, and fuel cells.

This bill would establish the Fusion Research and Development Innovation
 Initiative within the commission to accelerate the development and growth of fusion energy by advancing fusion science and technology. The bill would require the commission to administer the initiative and provide financial incentives for projects that, among other things, advance research and development into fusion energy, accelerate the deployment of new research and technology capabilities that support the commercialization of fusion energy, or achieve the initiative’s goal of delivering the world’s first fusion energy pilot project in the state by the 2040s, as specified. The bill would make its provisions operative, and implementation of its provisions
 contingent, upon an appropriation by the Legislature for the initiative. The bill would repeal its provisions on January 1, 2028.

Digest Key

 Vote:
 MAJORITY 
 Appropriation:
 NO 
 Fiscal Committee:
 YES 
 Local Program:
 NO 

Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(a) The 100 Percent Clean Energy Act of 2018 (Chapter 312 of the Statutes of 2018) established a state policy of renewable energy and zero-carbon resources
 supplying 100 percent of electric retail sales to end-use customers by 2045.

(b) When successfully commercialized, fusion energy holds the potential for nearly limitless clean, safe, and reliable energy that can be utilized for dispatchable baseload electricity without producing air pollution, harmful emissions, or long-lasting nuclear waste and could play an important role in meeting California’s zero-carbon targets, thereby contributing to California’s broader climate goals, including those of the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (Chapter 488 of the Statutes of
 2006).

(c) President Biden’s Administration’s Net-Zero Game Changers Initiative identified fusion energy at scale as one of five priorities that will help enable the United States to achieve net-zero emissions no later than 2050.

(d) California has the largest fusion economy in
 the United States, hosting one-third of United States fusion energy startup companies, supporting more than 20,000 jobs at national laboratories, national user facilities, the University of California, the California State University, and other academic institutions, and leveraging billions of dollars in public and private investments. This position presents a unique opportunity for California to lead the way in advancing fusion energy innovation.

(e) The United States Department of Energy’s Fusion Energy Strategy 2024 calls for closing science and technology gaps to a commercially relevant
 fusion pilot plant. In July 2024, the department published a request for information soliciting input for a Fusion Energy Public-Private Consortium Framework with the goal of accelerating fusion energy research, development, demonstration