Energetics brought together experts from industry, universities, and the national laboratories to develop a research and development agenda that would ultimately lead to the continuous manufacture of high quality, low cost, second generation high temperature superconducting coated conductors.

This roadmap examined materials, processing, and manufacturing issues and identified the highest priorities: increasing HTS film thickness while maintaining high current density and increasing HTS film deposition rates or mass throughputs while maintaining quality. Energetics was able to align general continuous manufacturing operations with the coated conductor fabrication pathway.

This roadmap links needs in high temperature superconducting technology research with the needs of industry. Both government and industry are using this as a guide for planning new research investments.