Zap Energy

aid: zap-energy
name: Zap Energy
description: Zap Energy is a Seattle, Washington fusion energy company pursuing commercial fusion power via the sheared-flow-stabilized
  Z-pinch — a compact, magnet-free pulsed-power approach in which a flowing column of deuterium plasma is compressed (pinched)
  to fusion conditions inside a roughly two-meter metal tube, with shear in the axial flow stabilizing the pinch in place
  of the heavy superconducting magnets used by tokamak and stellarator designs. Founded in 2017 by Benj Conway, Brian A. Nelson,
  and Uri Shumlak as a spinout of University of Washington and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory research, the company
  has developed a lineage of devices — ZaP, ZaP-HD, FuZE, FuZE-Q, and FuZE-3 — culminating in 2024 with Century, a 100-kW-scale
  repetitive pulsed-power test platform with liquid-metal walls intended to demonstrate plant-relevant technologies. In November
  2025 FuZE-3 reported plasma electron pressures of 830 MPa (1.6 GPa total), the highest pressure measured in any sheared-flow-stabilized
  Z-pinch and a marker on the path to scientific energy gain (Q>1). Zap Energy was selected for the U.S. Department of Energy's
  Milestone-Based Fusion Development Program in May 2023 and received DOE approval of the preconceptual design of its Fusion
  Pilot Plant. The company has raised over $325 million across Series A–D from Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Lowercarbon Capital,
  Energy Impact Partners, Chevron Technology Ventures, Shell Ventures, DCVC, Valor Equity Partners, and Addition. As of April
  2026, Zabrina Johal serves as CEO with Conway as President, and the company has expanded its mandate to also pursue small
  modular fission alongside its fusion roadmap. Zap Energy has no public developer API, SDK, GitHub organization, or open-source
  release; the technical surface is published as peer-reviewed papers and DOE milestone reports.
type: Index
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  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Producing
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/zap-energy.png
tags:
- Fusion
- Fusion Energy
- Nuclear Fusion
- Z-Pinch
- Sheared-Flow-Stabilized Z-Pinch
- Pulsed Power
- Plasma Physics
- FuZE
- FuZE-Q
- FuZE-3
- Century
- Fusion Pilot Plant
- Liquid Metal Walls
- Clean Energy
- Climate Tech
- DOE Milestone Program
- Energy
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/zap-energy/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-24'
modified: '2026-05-24'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis: []
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/zap-energy-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.zapenergy.com
- type: LegacyWebsite
  url: https://legacy.zapenergy.com
- type: News
  url: https://www.zapenergy.com/news
- type: TechnicalPaper
  url: https://www.zapenergy.com/news/zap-energy-exceeds-gigapascal-fusion-plasma-pressures-on-new-fusion-device-fuze-3
- type: CenturyOverview
  url: https://www.zapenergy.com/news/lightning-strikes-12-times-per-minute-century
- type: Careers
  url: https://ats.rippling.com/zap-energy-careers/jobs
- type: Contact
  url: mailto:reachout@zap.energy
- type: Twitter
  url: https://twitter.com/Energy_Zap
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/zap-energy
- type: YouTube
  url: https://www.youtube.com/@Zap_Energy
- type: Wikipedia
  url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zap_Energy
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com