(Bloomberg) -- The Biden administration is developing plans to increase funding into fusion energy that would accelerate efforts to tap the energy of the stars.

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The US Energy Department is soliciting input for a public-private consortium framework, according to a notice Thursday in the Federal Register. The consortium would boost federal efforts by tapping funding from state and local governments, philanthropists and private industry.

The White House announced in 2022 a program to spur development of fusion energy technology, and the industry received a major boost at the end of that year when researchers achieved a key breakthrough. But recreating the process that powers stars is going to be an enormous challenge, and progress has been slow.

One of the key reasons for pursuing this public-private effort now “is because the required funding and pace of R&D and project delivery are not readily achievable,” according to the notice.

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