Fayette Collier

Fay is the Associate Director for Flight Strategy, Integrated Aviation Systems Program for NASA Aeronautics. In this capacity he leads planning and formulation of large flight demonstrations for NASA. Fay is also serving as the Chief Engineer on the U.S. Department of Defense sponsored Blended Wing Body (BWB) Flight Project, a multiyear effort to stimulate widespread adoption of the BWB aircraft.

During 2021 and 2022, Fay led pre-formulation activities with U.S. Industry associated NASA’s Sustainable Flight Demonstrator. From 2016-2021, he led pre-formulation and formulation activities associated with a Megawatt-class electrified powertrain system flight demonstration project with the industrial base, other government, and academia. These two efforts successfully transitioned to formal projects within the Aeronautics portfolio and are currently underway.

From 2009-2016, Fay was the Project Manager of the Environmentally Responsible Aviation Project within NASA’s Integrated System Research Program. In this role, he directed the formulation and execution of NASAs integrated system research project, working in partnership with Industry, FAA, AFRL and other government agencies. The technology development project was focused on research, development and integration of engine and airframe (BWB and tube/wing) technologies to dramatically reduce carbon and noise footprints of airliners.

Fay is a graduate of Virginia Tech (Aerospace Engineering, B.S., 1981, M.S., 1982, Ph.D., 1988) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.B.A., 1997). He is a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society, and a Fellow of the AIAA.

Panel 1: A regional approach to energy decarbonization

Wednesday, January 17th
11:30 – 13:00   HG F 30 | Audi Max

Panelists: Christer Björkqvist (ETN Global), Torsten Buddenberg (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries EMEA Ltd), Fayette Collier (USG), Xuan Lv (SPIC, State Power Investment Company), John Gülen (Bechtel)
Chair: Zuozhi Zhao (Siemens Energy)

Panel Abstract

20 years ago, the perspective on key technologies for energy decarbonization, e.g. Solar PV, Wind Turbines, Batteries and eCar, was quite different than today’s view. Following the same logic, around year 2050 by when most countries are targeting to achieve carbon neutral, the view on key technologies which would enable the energy decarbonization would be quite different than today’s snapshot.

In this panel, we have five panelists from Europe, US, China and Japan. During the first 45 minutes, each panelist will share the overview of energy transition status and plans to achieve energy decarbonization from that region/country or industry (e.g. Aviation), followed by the status check on the key technologies and the focus for future enabling technologies. Then each panelist will share the individual efforts from his organization/company to help mature the technology readiness level as well as the cost position of the key technologies.

During the 2nd half of the panel, the panelists would discuss on how industries and institutes could work together to help address this global issue, given today’s geo-politics and macro-economic situation.