2026-10-16 · data · ●●○ · published 2026-10-16verified
Eurostat's household electricity price dataset (nrg_pc_204, updated October 16, 2026) puts the EU average household electricity price (incl. all taxes and levies, 2,500–4,999 kWh/yr band) at €28.32 per 100 kWh in H1 2026, down from €28.96 in H2 2025 and €28.79 in H1 2025 (excluding taxes and levies: €20.27, from €20.59 in H2 2025).
2026-10-14 · data · ●○○ · published 2026-10-14corrected
The US BLS Consumer Price Index release for September 2026 (October 14, 2026) shows the CPI-U electricity index up 4.4% over the 12 months to September 2026 (not seasonally adjusted), versus a 3.7% rise in the all-items index.
2026-09-30 · analysis · ●●○ · published 2026-09-30corrected
The ACER-CEER 2026 retail energy markets monitoring report (September 30, 2026) finds the EU-27 average household electricity price (ACER calculations on Eurostat data, all consumption bands) was EUR 294/MWh in 2025 versus EUR 224/MWh over 2019–2021, still above pre-crisis levels in both nominal and inflation-adjusted terms, that household electricity spending ranged from 1.2% (Luxembourg) to 3.9% (Czechia, Greece, Sweden) of national median income in 2025, and that more recent data show an emerging upward trend in retail electricity prices in 18 markets between January and August 2026.
2026-09-29 · data · ●○○ · published 2026-09-29verified
Japan's 10 major electric utilities announced on September 29, 2026 that their standard-household electricity bills for October 2026 usage (billed in November) will hit record highs at all 10 companies, rising by ¥835–1,578 a month after the end of the government's ¥3.50/kWh subsidy (plus a November 1 network-tariff revision), with Tokyo Electric Power's standard household at ¥9,561 a month (+¥1,286) and Okinawa Electric's at ¥10,752 (nominal yen).
2026-09-09 · projection · ●○○ · published 2026-09-09corrected
EIA's September 2026 Short-Term Energy Outlook puts the US average residential electricity price at 17.3 cents/kWh in 2025 and forecasts 18.2 cents/kWh in 2026 and 18.6 cents/kWh in 2027 (nominal).
2026-07-23 · data · ●●○ · published 2026-07-23verified
IEA's Electricity Mid-Year Update 2026 puts the average EU wholesale electricity price at around USD 105/MWh in H1 2026 (+15% year on year) amid the Strait of Hormuz LNG shock, and the US average at about USD 52/MWh (+10%).
2026-07-02 · data · ●●○ · published 2026-07-02verified
IRENA's Renewable Power Generation Costs in 2025 report (July 2026) gives the 2025 global weighted-average LCOE of newly commissioned projects as $44/MWh for solar PV (unchanged from 2024), $33/MWh for onshore wind and $78/MWh for offshore wind (2025 USD), with solar PV down 89%, onshore wind 71% and offshore wind 63% since 2010.
2026-05-05 · data · ●●○ · published 2026-05-05verified
Eurostat reports the consumption-weighted EU average household electricity price (incl. taxes, 2,500–5,000 kWh/yr band) at €28.96 per 100 kWh in H2 2025, up slightly from €28.79 in H1 2025 and still well above pre-2022-crisis levels.
2026-03 · data · ●●○ · published 2026-03-31corrected
Berkeley Lab's Retail Electricity Price Trends and Drivers 2026 edition finds US national-average residential electricity prices rose 33% in nominal terms and 5.6% in inflation-adjusted terms from 2019 to 2025, with residential prices up 5.0% (nominal) in 2025 alone.
2026-02-16 · data · ●●○ · published 2026-02-16verified
IEA's Household Energy Affordability report finds that global household spending on electricity exceeded USD 1 trillion for the first time in 2024, with electricity bills averaging 31% of total household energy spending (up from 26% in 2000).
2026-02-16 · analysis · ●●○ · published 2026-02-16verified
IEA's Household Energy Affordability report finds that EU average retail electricity prices reached USD 310/MWh in 2024 (about USD 130/MWh generation costs plus USD 180/MWh network charges and taxes), and that European household electricity prices in 2024 were about 10% higher in real terms than in 2019.
2026-02-06 · data · ●○○ · published 2026-02-06verified
IEA's Electricity 2026 report puts the 2025 average EU wholesale electricity price at about USD 95/MWh (up about 10% year on year) and the US average at about USD 50/MWh (up about 30%).
2026-02-06 · data · ●●○ · published 2026-02-06corrected
IEA's Electricity 2026 report finds US household electricity prices rose 5% year on year in 2025 to an average of USD 174/MWh over the first eleven months of the year, 32% above 2019.
2026-02-06 · analysis · ●●○ · published 2026-02-06verified
IEA's Electricity 2026 report finds that between 2019 and 2024 household electricity prices rose by 36% on average in the European Union and 26% in the United States, outpacing general inflation of 22% and 23% respectively.
2026-02-06 · data · ●●○ · published 2026-02-06verified
IEA's Electricity 2026 report puts the average EU residential electricity price at USD 322/MWh in H1 2025, broadly flat versus 2024 but 34% higher than in 2019.
2025 · data · ●●○ · published 2025-12-31corrected
In H1 2025, US wholesale electricity prices averaged around USD 48/MWh, about 40% higher year-on-year.
↳ corrects (or adds sources to) an earlier record: 2025: IEA's Electricity Mid-Year Update 2025 puts the average US wholesale electricity price…
2025 · data · ●●○ · published 2025-12-31corrected
In H1 2025, EU wholesale electricity prices averaged around USD 90/MWh, about 30% higher than in H1 2024.
↳ corrects (or adds sources to) an earlier record: 2025: IEA's Electricity Mid-Year Update 2025 puts the average EU wholesale electricity price…
2025 · data · ●●● · published 2025-12-31verified
Ember's Global Electricity Mid-Year Insights 2025 found renewables overtook coal in global electricity generation for the first time in H1 2025, at 34.3% versus 33.1% of the total.
↳ corrects (or adds sources to) an earlier record: 2025: Ember's Global Electricity Mid-Year Insights 2025 found renewables overtook coal in…
2025 · data · ●●○ · published 2025-06-30corrected
Lazard's LCOE+ 2025 (June 2025) gives LCOE ranges of $27–73/MWh (avg $50) for onshore wind, $29–92/MWh (avg $58) for solar PV, $41–108/MWh (avg $78) for gas combined cycle and $142–222/MWh for new nuclear fission.
↳ corrects (or adds sources to) an earlier record: 2025: Lazard's LCOE+ 2025 (June 2025) gives LCOE ranges of $27–73/MWh (avg $50) for onshore…
2025-11-12 · projection · ●●○ · published 2025-11-12verified
IEA's World Energy Outlook 2025 projects that in its Stated Policies Scenario real (2024 USD) household retail electricity prices to 2035 decline slightly in Europe, decline modestly in the United States, decline in India and stay relatively stable in China, while in its Current Policies Scenario US prices rise and China's rise slightly.
2025-07-17 · projection · ●●○ · published 2026-01-03corrected
TIME reports that CFS executives anticipate good business at $100/MWh and say fusion takes over the world at $50/MWh.
↳ corrects (or adds sources to) an earlier record: 2025: Commonwealth Fusion Systems, as reported by TIME in 2025, projects that nth-of-a-kind…
2024 · data · ●●○ · published 2026-10-16corrected
IRENA's Renewable Power Generation Costs in 2024 report gives the global weighted-average LCOE of newly commissioned utility-scale solar PV as $43/MWh in 2024 (2024 USD), down from $417 (2010), $135 (2015), $79 (2018), $61 (2020) and $51/MWh (2022).
↳ corrects (or adds sources to) an earlier record: 2024: IRENA's Renewable Power Generation Costs in 2024 report gives the global…
2024 · data · ●●○ · published 2026-10-16corrected
IRENA's Renewable Power Generation Costs in 2024 report gives the global weighted-average LCOE of newly commissioned onshore wind as $34/MWh in 2024 (2024 USD), down from $113 (2010), $76 (2015), $56 (2018), $41 (2020) and $34/MWh (2022).
↳ corrects (or adds sources to) an earlier record: 2024: IRENA's Renewable Power Generation Costs in 2024 report gives the global…
2024 · data · ●●○ · published 2026-10-16corrected
IRENA's Renewable Power Generation Costs in 2024 report gives the global weighted-average LCOE of newly commissioned offshore wind as $79/MWh in 2024 (2024 USD), down from $208 (2010), $155 (2015), $114 (2018), $91 (2020) and $81/MWh (2022).
↳ corrects (or adds sources to) an earlier record: 2024: IRENA's Renewable Power Generation Costs in 2024 report gives the global…
2024-09-11 · analysis · ●○○ · published 2024-09-11verified
The US EIA found that average US residential electricity prices rose by less than 1% in inflation-adjusted terms between 2013 and 2023, while the nominal average rose from a little over 12 cents/kWh to 16 cents/kWh.
2023 · analysis · ●●○ · published 2023-12-31verified
Lindley et al. (Energy Policy, 2023) estimate that first-of-a-kind fusion power plants would have a levelized cost of electricity above $150/MWh.
↳ corrects (or adds sources to) an earlier record: 2023: Lindley et al. (Energy Policy, 2023) estimate that first-of-a-kind fusion power plants…
2026-10-07 · achievement · ●○○ · published 2026-10-07verified
China's BEST tokamak project in Hefei had its project campus delivered for use and its main-machine assembly more than halfway complete as of early October 2026, with construction expected to finish by the end of 2027 and deuterium-tritium fusion power-generation demonstrations planned around 2030.
2026-09-30 · announcement · ●●○ · published 2026-09-30verified
On September 30, 2026, Commonwealth Fusion Systems agreed to buy more than 10,000 km (3 GA-m) of high-temperature superconducting tape from Fujikura, the largest such order, for its ARC power plants starting with the first at the Fall Line Fusion Power Station in Virginia, with Fujikura expanding its manufacturing capacity to supply it.
2026-09-22 · setback · ●●○ · published 2026-09-22verified
On September 22, 2026, Commonwealth Fusion Systems reported that 8 of the 18 toroidal-field magnets of its SPARC tokamak were installed, behind its January 2026 expectation of installing all 18 by the end of summer 2026.
2026-09-08 · setback · ●●○ · published 2026-09-08verified
Axios Pro reported on September 8, 2026 that Helion had removed from its website the prediction that its Orion plant would produce electricity by 2028 (the Orion page now says it will 'begin initial operations in 2028'), and that a Helion executive said Orion's 50 MW would in no case reach full operation in 2028, with full power not before 2029 or 2030, while the Microsoft contract requires grid connection and start of operations by end-2028.
2026-09-02 · announcement · ●○○ · published 2026-09-02verified
Japan's METI conditionally selected Helical Fusion as an operator in its fusion power-generation demonstration grant programme, under which about JPY 60 billion (USD 370 million) in subsidies is expected to go to the selected operators by the end of February 2029 toward power-generation demonstrations in the 2030s.
2026-08-31 · achievement · ●●○ · published 2026-08-31verified
On August 31, 2026, Tennessee issued Type One Energy the first fusion-specific byproduct material license in the US under the new state framework for fusion machines, for its Project Infinity at TVA's Bull Run site, where Type One intends to break ground on the first phase in 2026 and expects full startup by 2034 of what is forecast as the 400 MWe Infinity Two stellarator plant.
2026-08-18 · projection · ●●○ · published 2026-08-18verified
General Fusion, which became the first publicly listed fusion company on Nasdaq in July 2026 with about US$150 million of cash to fund its LM26 programme through key milestones by end-2028, said on August 18, 2026 that it aims to deploy its first-of-a-kind fusion plant by approximately 2035.
2026-08-05 · projection · ●●○ · published 2026-08-05verified
TAE Technologies said on August 5, 2026 that it expects its first fusion power plant, the 50 MWe Da Vinci, to begin operations in 2031, with a site to be selected later in 2026.
2026-08-05 · achievement · ●●○ · published 2026-08-05verified
On August 5, 2026, Commonwealth Fusion Systems said a DOE-assembled panel of 14 independent experts had approved its ARC power plant preconceptual design and technology roadmap as milestones of DOE's Milestone-Based Fusion Development Program, for a plant designed for 400 MW net electrical output, and that SPARC was almost 80% complete.
2026-07-30 · announcement · ●●○ · published 2026-07-30verified
On July 30, 2026, Commonwealth Fusion Systems announced $1 billion of additional equity financing, the largest fusion round since its own 2021 Series B, bringing its total capital raised to $4 billion to finish assembling SPARC and develop its first ARC plant at the Fall Line site, which it says is on track to put power on the grid in the early 2030s.
2026-07-21 · policy · ●●○ · published 2026-07-21verified
Japan's fusion roadmap adopted on July 21, 2026 by the Headquarters for Japan's Growth Strategy targets a fusion power-generation demonstration in the 2030s, estimates JPY 3.1 trillion of public-private investment through FY2040 (assuming one demonstration plant), and notes that fusion power generation has yet to be demonstrated anywhere in the world.
2026-07-13 · data · ●●○ · published 2026-07-13corrected
The Fusion Industry Association's 2026 global fusion industry report (56 companies surveyed) counts a record $4.48 billion raised in the 12 months to July 2026 and $14.24 billion in total funding to date, and of 45 companies answering when the first fusion plant will deliver commercial electricity, 3 said 2026–2030, 16 said 2031–2035 (21 a year earlier), 13 said 2036–2040, 9 said 2041–2045 (5 a year earlier) and 4 said later.
2026-06-16 · achievement · ●●○ · published 2026-06-16verified
On June 16, 2026, Helion received a Radioactive Materials License and a Radioactive Air Emissions License from the Washington Department of Health for its Orion fusion plant in Malaga, Washington, which lets it proceed with the generator building (earthwork began in spring 2026), while a transmission interconnection agreement with Chelan County PUD was still being worked toward.
2026-06-04 · announcement · ●●○ · published 2026-06-04corrected
On June 4, 2026, Helion announced a $465 million Series G led by Thrive Capital at a $15.5 billion post-money valuation, bringing total investment in the company to $1.5 billion, to scale manufacturing and deploy its Orion fusion plant.
2026-06-04 · policy · ●●○ · published 2026-06-04verified
On June 4, 2026, the US Department of Energy released its finalized Fusion Science and Technology Roadmap, a national strategy aimed at fusion pilot plants and commercialization by the mid-2030s, implemented through DOE's new Office of Fusion, while stating that the roadmap does not commit DOE to specific funding levels.
2026-05-06 · announcement · ●○○ · published 2026-05-06verified
Type One Energy, Tokamak Energy and AECOM formed the UK Infinity Fusion Consortium on May 6, 2026 to develop a private-sector-led UK project based on Type One's 400 MWe Infinity Two stellarator plant design, with no site or date announced.
2026-04-28 · announcement · ●●○ · published 2026-04-28verified
On April 28, 2026, Commonwealth Fusion Systems became the first fusion developer to apply to connect a power plant to a major US grid operator, filing a PJM Interconnection request for its first 400 MW ARC plant at the newly named Fall Line Fusion Power Station in Chesterfield County, Virginia, which it targets to deliver electricity in the early 2030s (interconnection studies to generation can take four to six years).
2026-04-07 · announcement · ●○○ · published 2026-04-07verified
TAE Technologies completed on April 7, 2026 a site-evaluation tour of Alabama, Ohio and Texas (begun March 26) for its first fusion power plant, which targets about 50 MWe of electricity generation in the early 2030s; no site was selected.
2026-03-16 · policy · ●●○ · published 2026-03-16verified
On March 16, 2026, the UK government published its fusion strategy, which commits UK Fusion Energy (formerly UK Industrial Fusion Solutions) to submit the Development Consent Order for the STEP prototype fusion plant at West Burton by March 2029, and the STEP programme named the ILIOS consortium (a Kier–Nuvia joint venture) as its £200m construction partner.
2026-02-26 · announcement · ●●○ · published 2026-02-26verified
On February 26, 2026, Proxima Fusion, RWE, the Free State of Bavaria and the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics signed a memorandum of understanding on a roadmap to put a commercial stellarator fusion plant on the grid in Germany: the Alpha net-energy demonstration stellarator near Garching (to operate in the 2030s), followed by the Stellaris power plant planned at RWE's former Gundremmingen nuclear plant site; no grid date was given.
2026-02-26 · policy · ●●○ · published 2026-02-26verified
On February 26, 2026, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission published its proposed rule 'Regulatory Framework for Fusion Machines' (91 FR 9476), which would regulate fusion machines under the existing byproduct-material framework (10 CFR part 30) with draft licensing guidance NUREG-1556 Vol. 22, with comments due by May 27, 2026; as of September 2026 no final rule had been issued.
2026-02-13 · achievement · ●●○ · published 2026-02-13corrected
Helion announced on February 13, 2026 that its seventh-generation Polaris prototype became the first privately developed fusion machine to demonstrate measurable deuterium-tritium fusion (in January 2026) and reached plasma temperatures of 150 million °C; Helion said it will keep raising Polaris plasma temperatures to show reliable operation with deuterium-helium-3, the fuel relevant for its future commercial operations.
2026-01-29 · announcement · ●●○ · published 2026-01-29verified
On January 29, 2026, Type One Energy submitted to Tennessee's Department of Environment and Conservation the initial byproduct-material licensing application for its Project Infinity fusion plant at TVA's former Bull Run coal plant site, which comprises the Infinity One prototype (startup scheduled 2029) and the Infinity Two stellarator power plant that TVA has a letter of intent to develop (construction as early as 2028).
2026-01-16 · projection · ●●○ · published 2026-01-19verified
China's BEST (Burning Plasma Experimental Superconducting Tokamak) project in Hefei, presented at the Fusion Energy Technology and Industry Conference 2026, aims to demonstrate net fusion power gain and fusion-based electricity generation by around 2030 (a government experimental device, not a commercial plant).
2026-01-06 · achievement · ●●○ · published 2026-01-06corrected
On January 6, 2026, Commonwealth Fusion Systems installed the first of the 18 toroidal-field magnets of its SPARC demonstration tokamak, said it expected to install all 18 by the end of summer 2026, and said it hoped to turn SPARC on in 2027.
2025 · projection · ●○○ · published 2026-01-03corrected
TAE’s hydrogen-boron power-plant design aims to deliver commercial fusion by the early 2030s.
↳ corrects (or adds sources to) an earlier record: 2025: TAE Technologies targets a commercial p-B11 fusion power plant in the early 2030s.
2025 · achievement · ●●○ · published 2026-01-03legacy
By 2025, Helion Energy's Polaris D-He3 field-reversed-configuration fusion prototype was operational and the company had over 500 employees.
2025 · projection · ●●○ · published 2026-01-03verified
Helion Energy targets delivering fusion electricity to Microsoft by 2028 under a power purchase agreement.
↳ corrects (or adds sources to) an earlier record: 2025: Helion Energy targets delivering fusion electricity to Microsoft by 2028 under a power…
2025 · achievement · ●●○ · published 2026-01-03legacy
In 2025, Commonwealth Fusion Systems had its SPARC magnets validated by the US DOE (an $8M milestone payment), took delivery of the SPARC vacuum vessel and had SPARC assembly underway.
2025 · projection · ●●○ · published 2026-01-03corrected
Commonwealth Fusion Systems targets SPARC operation in 2026 and its ARC commercial fusion power plant in the early 2030s.
↳ corrects (or adds sources to) an earlier record: 2025: Commonwealth Fusion Systems targets SPARC operation in 2026 and its ARC commercial…
2025 · announcement · ●●○ · published 2026-01-03corrected
In 2025, Google agreed to buy half the power produced at the CFS plant.
↳ corrects (or adds sources to) an earlier record: 2025: In 2025, Google agreed a deal to buy 200 MW of fusion power from Commonwealth Fusion…
2025-12 · achievement · ●●○ · published 2025-12-19corrected
In December 2025, Tokamak Energy reported three performance records on its ST40 spherical tokamak, including 1 MA plasma current and the highest triple product achieved by a private company (~8×10¹⁸ m⁻³·keV·s).
↳ corrects (or adds sources to) an earlier record: 2025-12: In December 2025, Tokamak Energy reported three performance records on its ST40…
2025 · projection · ●○○ · published 2025-12-19legacy
Tokamak Energy targets commercial spherical-tokamak fusion power in the 2030s.
2025-11-17 · announcement · ●●○ · published 2026-01-03verified
On November 17, 2025, TAE Technologies announced it would skip its sixth-generation device (Copernicus) and accelerate directly toward a commercial fusion power plant.
↳ corrects (or adds sources to) an earlier record: 2025-11-17: On November 17, 2025, TAE Technologies announced it would skip its sixth-generation…
2025-10-15 · achievement · ●●○ · published 2025-12-31corrected
Helion Energy secured a Conditional Use Permit from Chelan County to build the fusion generator building for its Orion plant near Malaga.
↳ corrects (or adds sources to) an earlier record: 2025-10-15: On October 15, 2025, Helion Energy secured a building permit from Chelan County,…
2025-08-28 · announcement · ●●● · published 2026-01-03verified
On August 28, 2025, Commonwealth Fusion Systems announced an $863M Series B2 round, bringing its total funding to about $3B, the largest deep-tech raise of 2025.
↳ corrects (or adds sources to) an earlier record: 2025-08-28: On August 28, 2025, Commonwealth Fusion Systems announced an $863M Series B2 round,…
2025-07 · data · ●●● · published 2025-07-31corrected
The Fusion Industry Association’s 2025 report says total fusion investment surpassed $9.7 billion, while surveyed companies estimate more than $77 billion in total capital required to bring every surveyed company to commercialization.
↳ corrects (or adds sources to) an earlier record: 2025-07: The Fusion Industry Association's 2025 Global Fusion Industry Report found cumulative…
2025-07-30 · achievement · ●●● · published 2026-01-03corrected
On July 30, 2025, Helion Energy began construction of its Orion fusion power plant in Malaga, Washington, described as the first commercial fusion power plant site.
↳ corrects (or adds sources to) an earlier record: 2025-07-30: On July 30, 2025, Helion Energy began construction of its Orion fusion power plant in…
2025-04-07 · achievement · ●●● · published 2026-01-03verified
On April 7, 2025, the National Ignition Facility at LLNL achieved a target gain of Q=4.13, producing 8.6 MJ of fusion yield from 2.08 MJ of laser energy input, the highest fusion gain ever recorded.
↳ corrects (or adds sources to) an earlier record: 2025-04-07: On April 7, 2025, the National Ignition Facility at LLNL achieved a target gain of…
2025-02-12 · achievement · ●●○ · published 2026-01-03corrected
On February 12, 2025, CEA's WEST tokamak set a world record for plasma duration of 22 minutes 17 seconds.
↳ corrects (or adds sources to) an earlier record: 2025-02-12: On February 12, 2025, CEA's WEST tokamak set a world record for plasma duration of 22…
2024 · setback · ●●● · published 2026-01-03verified
ITER's 2024 baseline reset moved first plasma to 2034 and deuterium-tritium operations to 2039, a delay of about nine years.
↳ corrects (or adds sources to) an earlier record: 2024: ITER's 2024 baseline reset moved first plasma to 2034 and deuterium-tritium operations…
2024 · setback · ●●○ · published 2026-01-03verified
Helion Energy missed its previously stated target of demonstrating net electricity from fusion in 2024.
↳ corrects (or adds sources to) an earlier record: 2024: Helion Energy missed its previously stated target of demonstrating net electricity from…
2026-10-08 · achievement · ●●○ · published 2026-10-08verified
General Fusion and UKAEA announced on October 8, 2026 that the LM26 magnetized-target-fusion machine reached electron temperatures of about 1.1 keV by Thomson scattering just before peak compression (about 1.2 keV by AXUV at peak) with ion heating to about 0.46 keV, the company's 1 keV milestone (a heating result, not net energy; paper submitted for peer review).
2026-10-07 · announcement · ●○○ · published 2026-10-07verified
On October 7, 2026, Zap Energy said DOE approved two milestones for its in-house pulsed-power capacitor: a 35 kV, 50,000 A design projected to last 6 billion pulses (versus about 100,000 for typical commercial units) and its first manufactured prototype (lifetime is a design projection).
- 2026-10-07 · China's BEST tokamak project in Hefei had its project campus delivered for use and its main-machine assembly more than halfway complete as o…
2026-10-06 · announcement · ●○○ · published 2026-10-06verified
On October 6, 2026, Xcimer Energy finalized an agreement for up to $30.5 million of additional milestone-contingent funding in the second budget period of DOE's Milestone-Based Fusion Development Program, bringing its potential DOE milestone payments to $39.5 million.
2026-10-06 · announcement · ●●○ · published 2026-10-06verified
Stellarator developer Type One Energy announced on October 6, 2026 the completion of a $200 million Series B financing round.
2026-10-02 · achievement · ●●○ · published 2026-10-05verified
Vacuum-vessel sector #2, the last of ITER's nine sectors and the last of its core tokamak components, arrived on site from Europe on October 2, 2026.
- 2026-09-30 · On September 30, 2026, Commonwealth Fusion Systems agreed to buy more than 10,000 km (3 GA-m) of high-temperature superconducting tape from …
2026-09 · achievement · ●●○ · published 2026-09-17corrected
Site works (fencing, temporary facilities, initial earthworks) for the main building of IFMIF-DONES, the Granada neutron source for fusion-materials testing, began in mid-September 2026, with excavation planned before end-2026 and the building substantially complete by 2029.
2026-09 · achievement · ●●○ · published 2026-09-14verified
ITER reported on September 14, 2026 that all four tritium-breeding test blanket systems to be tested in its first D-T phase (including China's HCCB and Europe's WCLL) passed preliminary design reviews in summer 2026 and are moving to final engineering design.
2026-09-22 · achievement · ●●○ · published 2026-09-22verified
First Light Fusion reported on September 22, 2026 that experiments on its M3 pulsed-power facility demonstrated FLARE's target-led fuel-compression principle using a simpler, lower-power driver (testing the compression stage only, not ignition or gain).
- 2026-09-22 · On September 22, 2026, Commonwealth Fusion Systems reported that 8 of the 18 toroidal-field magnets of its SPARC tokamak were installed, beh…
2026-09-09 · achievement · ●●○ · published 2026-09-09verified
Tokamak Energy completed a 14-month campaign on its Demo4 HTS fusion magnet system (44 coils in spherical-tokamak configuration), reaching a peak field of 13.7 T, cycling from 77 K to 17 K under 150 MPa transverse stress for about 10,000 hours, and surviving forced discharges at 12.5 T without degradation.
- 2026-08-31 · On August 31, 2026, Tennessee issued Type One Energy the first fusion-specific byproduct material license in the US under the new state fram…
2026-08-27 · achievement · ●○○ · published 2026-08-27verified
Marathon Fusion announced on August 27, 2026 that its plasma centrifuge demonstrated enrichment of lithium and hydrogen isotopes (no enrichment factors published), which it says could cut tritium flow rates and fuel-processing system size by a factor of ten or more.
2026-08-25 · achievement · ●●○ · published 2026-08-25verified
Inertia and LLNL reported on August 25, 2026 a process that forms the cryogenic D-T fuel layer of Inertia's target within design tolerances in two to three hours, versus up to a week with manual intervention for NIF capsules, toward plant-rate fueling of several hundred targets per minute (company-reported, verified with LLNL design codes).
2026-08-24 · announcement · ●●○ · published 2026-08-24verified
On August 24, 2026, Pacific Fusion broke ground on a $1 billion Research & Manufacturing Campus in Albuquerque for its pulser-driven Demonstration System, which it targets to reach net facility gain (fusion energy exceeding the energy stored in the machine) by 2030 (a target, not yet demonstrated by anyone).
2026-08-24 · announcement · ●○○ · published 2026-08-24verified
Fusion-plant systems supplier Kyoto Fusioneering (blankets, fuel cycle, heating) announced on August 24, 2026 JPY 25.72 billion (about $162 million) in total financing: JPY 16.72 billion of new equity plus JPY 9.0 billion in credit and loan facilities.
- 2026-08-18 · General Fusion, which became the first publicly listed fusion company on Nasdaq in July 2026 with about US$150 million of cash to fund its L…
2026-08-12 · announcement · ●●○ · published 2026-08-12verified
On August 12, 2026, Kyoto Fusioneering said it will build UNITY-3 with ORNL, backed by DOE and Tennessee's Nuclear Energy Supply Chain Investment Fund, to validate tritium-breeding blankets by measuring neutron spectra and tritium production in neutronically prototypic blanket test articles, and is moving its US headquarters to Oak Ridge.
2026-08-06 · achievement · ●○○ · published 2026-08-06verified
UKAEA reported on August 6, 2026 that the fifth MAST Upgrade campaign (over 1,100 plasmas in 2025–26) achieved the machine's highest plasma pressure without destabilising, using RMP coils and QCE, QH- and I-mode regimes to suppress edge-localised modes.
- 2026-08-05 · On August 5, 2026, Commonwealth Fusion Systems said a DOE-assembled panel of 14 independent experts had approved its ARC power plant preconc…
2026-07 · achievement · ●●○ · published 2026-09-07verified
ITER completed in July 2026, ahead of schedule, the repair of its vacuum-vessel thermal shield (after stress-corrosion cracking was found in its cooling pipes; repair programme launched in 2023), which involved removing about 11 km of cooling pipework and one tonne of silver coating.
2026-07-30 · policy · ●●○ · published 2026-07-30verified
Germany's research ministry announced about €125 million in first-round funding for three national fusion hubs under its Fusion 2040 programme: VEGA for laser fusion (coordinated by Marvel Fusion and Focused Energy, at RWE's former Biblis plant), one for magnetic fusion, and one for fuel cycles and materials.
- 2026-07-30 · On July 30, 2026, Commonwealth Fusion Systems announced $1 billion of additional equity financing, the largest fusion round since its own 20…
2026-07-28 · achievement · ●●○ · published 2026-07-29verified
ITER installed the sixth of nine tokamak sector modules (built around vacuum-vessel sector #1) at the end of July 2026, almost six months ahead of schedule, and moved the expected installation of the final module from December 2027 to mid-2027.
- 2026-07-10 · Tokamak Energy's pre-concept design of its ST-E1 spherical-tokamak fusion power plant, published in Nuclear Fusion on 10 July 2026, targets …
2026-07-07 · announcement · ●●○ · published 2026-07-07verified
On July 7, 2026, stellarator developer Proxima Fusion announced a €411 million ($468 million) financing round at a €2.4 billion valuation, making Proxima the best-funded fusion company in Europe, to build Alpha, its planned net-energy stellarator demonstrator near Munich.
2026-07-01 · announcement · ●●○ · published 2026-07-01verified
On July 1, 2026, Commonwealth Fusion Systems became the first international partner in UKAEA's £220 million LIBRTI programme, which tests tritium-breeding blanket technologies and aims to demonstrate net tritium production.
2026-06 · achievement · ●●○ · published 2026-06-02verified
Pacific Fusion reported in June 2026 that its scaled prototype pulser delivered about 440 GW of peak output power and about 1.1 MV in 80 ns, which it calls the highest-power single-step pulsed-power driver ever demonstrated; its planned fusion system is to use 156 pulser modules.
2026-06-27 · achievement · ●○○ · published 2026-06-29verified
The 582-tonne toroidal-field superconducting magnet for China's BEST tokamak, which its Hefei developers call the largest of its kind for fusion reactors, passed a comprehensive expert-panel review on June 27, 2026.
2026-06-22 · achievement · ●●○ · published 2026-06-22verified
General Fusion reported on June 22, 2026 that mechanical compression on its LM26 magnetized-target-fusion machine raised electron temperature more than threefold to about 0.72 ± 0.08 keV (8.4 million °C), with plasma density and poloidal field each rising to 10 times starting values (preliminary, submitted for peer review).
2026-06-20 · achievement · ●●○ · published 2026-09-08verified
On June 20, 2026, the National Ignition Facility achieved fusion ignition for the 11th time, with a measured yield of 7.9 ± 0.4 MJ and a target gain of about 3.8, below the 8.6 MJ / gain 4.13 record of April 2025.
2026-06-11 · announcement · ●●○ · published 2026-06-11verified
On June 11, 2026, General Atomics said it is working with the US DOE to develop design concepts for the Fusion Blanket Component Test Facility, the first facility to test full-scale fusion power-plant breeding blankets, which have never been tested at that scale.
2026-06-10 · announcement · ●○○ · published 2026-06-10verified
DOE approved Xcimer Energy's preconceptual design and technology roadmap milestone for its Athena laser-fusion power plant, which is designed to run continuously at a repetition rate of up to 1 Hz with a molten-salt liquid-wall chamber that also breeds tritium (design targets, not demonstrated).
2026-06-03 · achievement · ●●○ · published 2026-06-03verified
On June 3, 2026, Xcimer Energy started operations of Phoenix, its prototype krypton-fluoride excimer laser with stimulated-Brillouin-scattering pulse compression, operating at pulse energies over 1 kJ with a 38 m SBS gas optic; next steps are Anvil (200 kJ on target, 2028) and Vulcan (4–12 MJ, early 2030s).
2026-05-27 · announcement · ●○○ · published 2026-05-27verified
Stellarator developer Thea Energy announced on May 27, 2026 a $100 million Series B to expand HTS magnet manufacturing and build its integrated stellarator system.
2026-05-27 · achievement · ●●○ · published 2026-05-27verified
By May 27, 2026, ITER had lowered sector module #4 into the tokamak pit, the fifth of nine (over half of the plasma chamber), ahead of the schedule in the ITER Baseline, with module assembly time cut to 5.5 months from 7.4 months for module #7.
2026-05-27 · announcement · ●●○ · published 2026-05-27verified
On May 27, 2026, German laser-fusion developer Focused Energy announced a $240 million Series A, which it called the largest fully secured Series A in the fusion industry, with RWE as strategic investor enabling use of the former Biblis nuclear site for laser fusion.
2026-05-21 · achievement · ●○○ · published 2026-05-27verified
ITER's magnet cold test facility began operations in May 2026, cooling its first toroidal-field coil (TF07, 330 t) to its 4 K operating temperature on May 21 ahead of full-current tests.
2026-05-19 · announcement · ●○○ · published 2026-05-19verified
On May 19, 2026, Zap Energy said DOE approved its preconceptual Z-pinch fusion power plant design report milestone under the Milestone-Based Fusion Development Program, describing a demonstration facility designed for about 50 MW net electrical output per module (a design, not operating output).
2026-05-15 · achievement · ●○○ · published 2026-07-16verified
Pacific Fusion announced on July 16, 2026 that Sirius, an impedance-matched Marx generator pulsed-power prototype built at LLNL, surpassed 3,000 full-power shots (60 GW in a 100 ns pulse at 95% energy efficiency), demonstrating component reliability for pulser-driven fusion.
2026-05-14 · achievement · ●●○ · published 2026-05-14verified
Zap Energy reported on May 14, 2026 that its FuZE-3 sheared-flow Z-pinch reached plasma pressures of 2.6 GPa (about 1.5 keV and 6×10²⁴ m⁻³ electron density, from Thomson scattering), up from the 1.6 GPa reported in November 2025 (company result, peer review pending).
2026-04-29 · announcement · ●●○ · published 2026-04-29verified
On April 29, 2026, fusion developer Zap Energy (over $330 million raised) said it will also develop fission reactors, aiming to have a fission product for sale by the early 2030s, the first fusion company to pursue both, and named Zabrina Johal CEO with co-founder Benj Conway becoming president.
- 2026-04-28 · On April 28, 2026, Commonwealth Fusion Systems became the first fusion developer to apply to connect a power plant to a major US grid operat…
2026-04-21 · announcement · ●○○ · published 2026-04-21corrected
First Light Fusion announced on April 21, 2026 a £25 million first close of a new funding round, led by Starmaker One and including a strategic investment from the UK Atomic Energy Authority, to accelerate commercial development of its FLARE inertial-fusion energy concept.
2026-04-14 · announcement · ●○○ · published 2026-04-14verified
UK Fusion Energy awarded Tokamak Energy a £70 million contract (March 2026–March 2029) as Magnet Systems Partner for the HTS magnet system of the STEP prototype fusion plant, announced April 14, 2026.
2026-04-14 · announcement · ●●○ · published 2026-04-14verified
On April 14, 2026, Inertia and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory signed two Strategic Partnership Projects (target design and target fabrication) and a CRADA (laser optics, diodes and beamline design), plus a licence to nearly 200 LLNL inertial-fusion patents.
- 2026-03-16 · On March 16, 2026, the UK government published its fusion strategy, which commits UK Fusion Energy (formerly UK Industrial Fusion Solutions)…
- 2026-02-26 · On February 26, 2026, Proxima Fusion, RWE, the Free State of Bavaria and the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics signed a memorandum of …
2026-02-11 · announcement · ●●○ · published 2026-02-11verified
On February 11, 2026, laser-fusion company Inertia Enterprises announced a $450 million milestone-based Series A to build a pilot plant on NIF-proven physics, including its planned 'Thunderwall' laser (planned as the world's most powerful) and a production line to mass-manufacture fuel targets.
2026-02-05 · achievement · ●●○ · published 2026-02-05verified
Pacific Fusion reported on February 5, 2026 that experiments with Sandia on the Z pulsed-power facility demonstrated a new family of pulser-driven inertial fusion targets that pre-magnetize the fuel without external magnetic coils, a step toward cheaper targets (a target-physics result, not fusion gain).
2026-02-02 · achievement · ●●○ · published 2026-02-02verified
Energy Singularity reported on February 2, 2026 that its HH70, the first all-high-temperature-superconducting tokamak, sustained a 1,337-second steady-state long-pulse plasma (shot 5,755), which the company says is the first thousand-second-level long-pulse plasma sustained by a fusion device built by a commercial company.
2026-01-29 · achievement · ●●○ · published 2026-02-02verified
On January 28–29, 2026, ITER lowered vacuum-vessel sector module #8 into the tokamak pit, the fourth of the nine sector modules to be installed.
- 2026-01-29 · On January 29, 2026, Type One Energy submitted to Tennessee's Department of Environment and Conservation the initial byproduct-material lice…
2026-01-29 · announcement · ●●○ · published 2026-01-29verified
On January 29, 2026, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Kyoto Fusioneering signed an agreement to work toward UNITY-3, a planned breeding-blanket test facility at ORNL able to test tritium-breeding blanket concepts in prototypic fusion nuclear conditions (announced, not yet built).
2026-01-22 · announcement · ●●○ · published 2026-01-22verified
On January 22, 2026, General Fusion agreed to go public on Nasdaq (ticker GFUZ) through a business combination with Spring Valley Acquisition Corp. III implying about US$1 billion pro-forma equity value, including a committed ~US$105 million PIPE and US$230 million of SPAC trust capital (assuming no redemptions).
- 2026-01-16 · China's BEST (Burning Plasma Experimental Superconducting Tokamak) project in Hefei, presented at the Fusion Energy Technology and Industry …
2026-01-13 · announcement · ●○○ · published 2026-01-13verified
On January 13, 2026, Thea Energy said the US DOE had certified the preconceptual design of its 'Helios' planar-coil stellarator fusion pilot plant, making it the first awardee of the Milestone-Based Fusion Development Program to complete its pilot-plant design review (a design milestone, not hardware).
- 2026-01-06 · On January 6, 2026, Commonwealth Fusion Systems installed the first of the 18 toroidal-field magnets of its SPARC demonstration tokamak, sai…
2026-01-01 · achievement · ●●○ · published 2026-01-01verified
A Science Advances paper published on January 1, 2026 reports that China's EAST tokamak accessed a theorized 'density-free regime' using ECRH-assisted ohmic start-up with raised prefill gas pressure, reaching stable line-averaged electron densities of 1.3 to 1.65 times the Greenwald density limit (in ohmic start-up experiments, not burning-plasma conditions).
2025 · achievement · ●●○ · published 2026-01-03corrected
In 2025, Zap Energy's FuZE-3 device reached a plasma pressure of 1.6 GPa (about 10,000 times atmospheric pressure), and the company is scaling to FuZE-A.
↳ corrects (or adds sources to) an earlier record: 2025: In 2025, Zap Energy's FuZE-3 device reached a plasma pressure of 1.6 GPa (about 10,000…
2025 · announcement · ●●○ · published 2026-01-03legacy
In 2025, the National Ignition Facility's Enhanced Yield Capability upgrade was approved, according to LLNL.
2025 · achievement · ●○○ · published 2026-01-03legacy
In 2025, ITER installed Sector Module #7, three weeks ahead of schedule.
2025 · announcement · ●●○ · published 2026-01-03corrected
In 2025, First Light Fusion published its FLARE concept, a path to fusion gain of ~1,000 at a facility cost of $100–200M (versus $5.3B for NIF), and pivoted to a technology-licensing model.
↳ corrects (or adds sources to) an earlier record: 2025: In 2025, First Light Fusion published its FLARE concept, a path to fusion gain of…
2025 · announcement · ●●○ · published 2026-01-03corrected
Google DeepMind and CFS will explore ways to improve operation of the SPARC fusion machine using AI.
↳ corrects (or adds sources to) an earlier record: 2025: Google DeepMind partnered with Commonwealth Fusion Systems to apply AI to plasma…
- 2025 · In 2025, Commonwealth Fusion Systems had its SPARC magnets validated by the US DOE (an $8M milestone payment), took delivery of the SPARC va…
- 2025 · Commonwealth Fusion Systems targets SPARC operation in 2026 and its ARC commercial fusion power plant in the early 2030s.
- 2025 · In 2025, Google agreed to buy half the power produced at the CFS plant.
- 2025-12 · In December 2025, Tokamak Energy reported three performance records on its ST40 spherical tokamak, including 1 MA plasma current and the hig…
- 2025 · Tokamak Energy targets commercial spherical-tokamak fusion power in the 2030s.
2025-11 · achievement · ●●○ · published 2025-11-19verified
In November 2025, Tokamak Energy validated its Demo4 high-temperature-superconducting magnet system at 11.8 T and −243°C.
↳ corrects (or adds sources to) an earlier record: 2025-11: In November 2025, Tokamak Energy validated its Demo4 high-temperature-superconducting…
- 2025-08-28 · On August 28, 2025, Commonwealth Fusion Systems announced an $863M Series B2 round, bringing its total funding to about $3B, the largest dee…
2025-06-22 · achievement · ●●○ · published 2026-01-03corrected
On June 22, 2025, a Los Alamos National Laboratory-led team working with LLNL achieved ignition using NIF.
↳ corrects (or adds sources to) an earlier record: 2025-06: In June 2025, LLNL's National Ignition Facility achieved ignition on its THOR…
- 2025-04-07 · On April 7, 2025, the National Ignition Facility at LLNL achieved a target gain of Q=4.13, producing 8.6 MJ of fusion yield from 2.08 MJ of …
- 2024 · ITER's 2024 baseline reset moved first plasma to 2034 and deuterium-tritium operations to 2039, a delay of about nine years.
2026-09-30 · projection · ●●○ · published 2026-09-30verified
Trump Media's Form S-4 for its merger with TAE Technologies (filed September 30, 2026) states that TAE plans to start building its Da Vinci plant in 2026, reach first plasma in 2029, demonstrate fusion energy in 2031 and begin initial operations thereafter, and discloses that TAE's Norm device has demonstrated sustained temperatures of only 75 million °C, that its experimental reactors generally run on hydrogen with occasional small amounts of deuterium, and that failure with hydrogen-boron could force a shift to deuterium-tritium.
2026-09-30 · setback · ●●○ · published 2026-09-30verified
TAE Technologies' financial statements in the TMTG merger Form S-4 filed September 30, 2026 show an accumulated deficit of $1.8 billion and cash of $114.3 million at June 30, 2026 (down from $151.9 million at March 31), state that recurring losses raise substantial doubt about TAE's ability to continue as a going concern, and now expect the all-stock merger, announced in December 2025 for mid-2026, to close in late 2026.
2026-09-19 · achievement · ●●○ · published 2026-09-28verified
ENN announced on September 28, 2026 that its EXL-50U spherical tokamak had achieved proton-boron (p-11B) fusion reactions in late September (first signals on September 19), measuring about 10^8 alpha particles per second by using neutral-beam injection plus RF waves to accelerate fast protons into the 162–200 keV cross-section resonance over a ~2 keV thermal plasma — the first p-B11 fusion on a commercial company's own device, a reaction demonstration far from energy gain.
2026-09-15 · announcement · ●●○ · published 2026-09-16corrected
On September 15, 2026, ENN broke ground in Langfang on EHL-2 (Helong-2), its third-generation spherical-torus proton-boron fusion device, which it targets to finish and start experiments by end-2027 and with which it aims to 'light the first lamp' of p-B11 fusion by 2030, followed by low-cost power generation and entry into the demonstration-reactor stage before 2035.
- 2026-09-08 · Axios Pro reported on September 8, 2026 that Helion had removed from its website the prediction that its Orion plant would produce electrici…
- 2026-08-05 · TAE Technologies said on August 5, 2026 that it expects its first fusion power plant, the 50 MWe Da Vinci, to begin operations in 2031, with…
2026-08-05 · announcement · ●○○ · published 2026-08-05verified
On August 5, 2026, TAE Technologies, whose preferred fuel is hydrogen-boron, signed a strategic helium-3 supply and commercialization agreement with Black Moon Energy Corporation (which plans a robotic lunar He-3 delineation mission within five years) as a prospective alternative fuel-supply option, citing its FRC's flexibility to run on the most cost-competitive fuel cycle.
2026-07-10 · announcement · ●●○ · published 2026-07-10verified
On July 10, 2026, ENN Fusion, ENN Group's proton-boron fusion company, completed its first external (Pre-A) financing round, amount undisclosed, at a post-money valuation of RMB 10.6 billion, the highest of any private fusion company in China, to fund construction of its EHL-2 spherical-torus p-B11 device (ENN Group had invested over RMB 4 billion in fusion R&D).
- 2026-06-16 · On June 16, 2026, Helion received a Radioactive Materials License and a Radioactive Air Emissions License from the Washington Department of …
- 2026-06-04 · On June 4, 2026, Helion announced a $465 million Series G led by Thrive Capital at a $15.5 billion post-money valuation, bringing total inve…
2026-05-08 · announcement · ●○○ · published 2026-05-08verified
GeekWire reported on May 8, 2026 that Helion is building Tiny Merge, a fusion testbed less than one-eighth the size of its Polaris prototype, to investigate plasma-ring (FRC) formation and merging questions that its larger machines had not fully resolved before Orion's design is locked, with operation planned by the end of summer 2026.
- 2026-04-07 · TAE Technologies completed on April 7, 2026 a site-evaluation tour of Alabama, Ohio and Texas (begun March 26) for its first fusion power pl…
2026-03-23 · announcement · ●●○ · published 2026-03-23verified
On March 23, 2026, Sam Altman stepped down as Helion's board chair and left its board while OpenAI, according to Axios, was in advanced talks to buy Helion fusion power — initially a guaranteed 12.5% of its output, equivalent to 5 GW by 2030 scaling to 50 GW by 2035 — talks Helion did not confirm, saying it had announced no customer agreements beyond Microsoft and Nucor.
- 2026-02-13 · Helion announced on February 13, 2026 that its seventh-generation Polaris prototype became the first privately developed fusion machine to d…
2026-02-07 · analysis · ●●○ · published 2026-02-07verified
Comments by Max Planck IPP's Karl Lackner and co-authors in the Journal of Fusion Energy (published February 7, 2026) argue that Helion's D-He3 pulsed-FRC gain projections (Kirtley & Milroy, 2023), which rest on an ion-to-electron temperature ratio of about 10, neglect collisional ion-to-electron power transfer that exceeds the D-He3 fusion power by more than an order of magnitude at 100 keV ion temperature (over two orders at 40 keV), implying much tighter requirements on plasma lifetime, losses and direct-conversion efficiency.
2026-02-06 · achievement · ●●○ · published 2026-02-06verified
A NIFS–TAE Technologies paper in Nuclear Fusion (published online February 6, 2026) reports the first direct experimental evidence that ion-cyclotron (ICRF) heating can re-accelerate ~160–170 keV neutral-beam protons and raise the beam-driven p-11B fusion alpha yield in the Large Helical Device (e.g. the alpha count rate decayed in 27.2 ms with ICRF versus 19.8 ms without after beam switch-off), a reaction-rate improvement, not a net-energy result.
2025-12 · achievement · ●●○ · published 2026-01-14corrected
ENN reported in January 2026 that its EXL-50U spherical torus achieved the first high-confinement-mode (H-mode) discharges in a hydrogen-boron plasma (30% diborane / 70% hydrogen working gas plus boron powder, about 10% boron content), doubling electron density and temperature and raising the triple product about tenfold versus L-mode, as groundwork for attempting p-B11 fusion reactions.
2025 · achievement · ●●○ · published 2026-01-03verified
In 2025, TAE Technologies achieved a world-first formation of a field-reversed configuration plasma using neutral beam injection only.
↳ corrects (or adds sources to) an earlier record: 2025: In 2025, TAE Technologies achieved a world-first formation of a field-reversed…
- 2025 · TAE’s hydrogen-boron power-plant design aims to deliver commercial fusion by the early 2030s.
2025 · announcement · ●●○ · published 2026-01-03legacy
In 2025, p-B11 fusion developer TAE Technologies was party to a merger valued at $6 billion.
- 2025 · By 2025, Helion Energy's Polaris D-He3 field-reversed-configuration fusion prototype was operational and the company had over 500 employees.
- 2025 · Helion Energy targets delivering fusion electricity to Microsoft by 2028 under a power purchase agreement.
2025 · achievement · ●○○ · published 2026-01-03legacy
HB11 Energy, a laser-driven p-B11 fusion company with $23M in funding, reported high fusion reaction rates in experiments at the PHELIX and LFEX laser facilities.
- 2025-11-17 · On November 17, 2025, TAE Technologies announced it would skip its sixth-generation device (Copernicus) and accelerate directly toward a com…
- 2025-10-15 · Helion Energy secured a Conditional Use Permit from Chelan County to build the fusion generator building for its Orion plant near Malaga.
- 2025-07-30 · On July 30, 2025, Helion Energy began construction of its Orion fusion power plant in Malaga, Washington, described as the first commercial …
2025-06 · announcement · ●○○ · published 2026-01-03legacy
In June 2025, TAE Technologies raised $150M, bringing its total funding to over $1.8B.
2025-01 · announcement · ●●○ · published 2026-01-03corrected
Helion announced a $425 million Series F.
↳ corrects (or adds sources to) an earlier record: 2025-01: In January 2025, Helion Energy raised a $425M Series F, bringing its total funding to…
- 2024 · Helion Energy missed its previously stated target of demonstrating net electricity from fusion in 2024.
2026-09-30 · achievement · ●●○ · published 2026-10-01verified
Fervo Energy declared commercial operation of Cape Station's first GeoBlock on September 30, 2026, one day ahead of its contractual date, with 33 MW of net power production and revenue now generated under its PPA; the other two 33 MW Phase I GeoBlocks are expected online by January 1, 2027 and the 400 MW Phase II in 2028.
2026-09-24 · achievement · ●●● · published 2026-09-24verified
On September 24, 2026, the first 33 MW GeoBlock of Fervo Energy's Cape Station enhanced geothermal project in Beaver County, Utah, synchronized to the grid and achieved first power, which Fervo describes as the first time a utility-scale enhanced geothermal development has reached this milestone anywhere in the world.
2026-09-21 · policy · ●●○ · published 2026-09-21verified
On September 21, 2026, the US DOE announced more than $99 million for 21 geothermal projects, five field-scale enhanced geothermal tests and 16 exploration-drilling projects, including up to $25M for Quaise Energy's superhot demonstration at Newberry Volcano, Oregon (bottomhole 265–365°C, targeting a >25 MW-gross well triplet) and two Fervo Energy awards totaling about $20M in Idaho and Nevada.
2026-09-17 · announcement · ●●○ · published 2026-09-17verified
On September 17, 2026, Mazama Energy announced $135M in new capital (Series B led by Centaurus Capital and Doerr Capital, with ConocoPhillips and Shell Ventures) and said its second Newberry, Oregon well, Project Athena, reached 10,350 ft in 15 days (about 80% faster than its 2025 well that created a 331°C engineered geothermal system) and is drilling toward 400°C, with Project Ceres targeting 15 MWe per well and a power demonstration in 2027.
2026-09-01 · announcement · ●●○ · published 2026-09-01verified
On September 1, 2026, Fervo Energy and Google signed a 396 MW power purchase agreement for Cape Station enhanced geothermal capacity expected online in 2028, with an option for Google to add about 600 MW (nearly 1 GW in total) by June 2030.
2026-08-27 · announcement · ●●○ · published 2026-08-27verified
On August 27, 2026, Quaise Energy closed its Series B at $180M in equity, including $35M from drilling contractor Nabors Industries with a strategic framework giving Quaise a dedicated land rig, bringing its total funding to $280M to fund Project Obsidian and millimeter-wave drilling toward depths beyond 5 km.
2026-08-19 · achievement · ●●○ · published 2026-08-19verified
Sage Geosystems said on August 19, 2026 that its 3 MW enhanced-geothermal pilot plant near San Antonio, Texas, had been producing grid-connected power since April 2026 and had performed as predicted over more than 120 days, losing less than 10% of cycled water; a follow-on project at an Ormat plant in Nevada, expected to produce power from 2027, precedes its planned 150 MW Meta development.
2026-07 · achievement · ●●○ · published 2026-10-08corrected
Quaise Energy began drilling the first well at Project Obsidian in Central Oregon in July 2026, a conventionally drilled confirmation well planned to reach about 15,000 ft and rock of about 400°C (750°F) to confirm the superhot resource; drilling was still under way on September 22, 2026.
2026-07-13 · data · ●●○ · published 2026-07-13verified
Lazard's 2026 LCOE+ (version 19.0, July 2026) puts unsubsidized geothermal LCOE at $67–111/MWh (its v14.0 result adjusted for inflation) and adds a first illustrative LCOE of about $107/MWh for new geothermal technology based on publicly disclosed estimates including a $7,000/kW capital cost.
2026-07-08 · achievement · ●●○ · published 2026-07-08verified
On July 8, 2026, Fervo Energy reported drilling Sawtooth 7, a Cape Station Phase II well of its 3.0 design, to 19,448 ft measured depth with a 7,500-ft lateral in a 460°F resource in 21 days spud-to-total-depth, a company drilling-pace record, and said Phase II is on track for $5,500/kW installed cost toward a $3,000/kW goal.
2026-07-07 · announcement · ●●○ · published 2026-07-07verified
On July 7, 2026, Quaise Energy announced a $134M first close of its Series B (led by Prelude Ventures with JERA and Idemitsu) to fund Project Obsidian, bringing total funding to $230M, and said its millimeter-wave drilling system was approaching 1 km of depth at its Central Texas field site (versus more than 100 m in 2025), which would be the deepest for any non-contact drilling technology.
2026-05-13 · setback · ●●○ · published 2026-05-21corrected
In May 2026 Eavor disclosed that Loop #1 of its Geretsried closed-loop geothermal project was stopped at 6 of 12 planned lateral pairs (three to four contributing flow) after cementing failures, producing about 8.5 MWth versus 64 MWth nameplate for the planned four-loop project, with gross output of 0.5–1 MWe against ~0.5 MWe plant load per its CEO, so it does not deliver power to the grid most of the time; Eavor is stepping back from the operator role to become a technology licensor and cut headcount from 147 to 80.
2026-05-12 · announcement · ●●○ · published 2026-06-22corrected
Fervo Energy announced pricing of its upsized Nasdaq IPO at $27.00 per share on May 12, 2026. The offering closed May 14, with the underwriters' over-allotment exercised, and issued 80.5 million shares for approximately $2.2 billion in gross proceeds to fund Cape Station and its enhanced geothermal pipeline.
2026-04 · achievement · ●○○ · published 2026-10-12corrected
In an April 2026 field test at NORCE's Ullrigg well in Stavanger, Norway, GA Drilling ran two coordinated NexTitan downhole drive units that drilled 66 ft (~20 m) of hard phyllite (22,000 psi UCS) over 7.5 hours and demonstrated a downhole turbine generator as a battery alternative.
2026-04-22 · projection · ●●○ · published 2026-04-22verified
Quaise Energy says Phase I of Project Obsidian near Newberry Volcano, Oregon, planned as the first superhot (>300°C) geothermal power plant, should produce at least 50 MW and be operational as early as 2030, with a second 250 MW phase and a 1 GW goal; the first wells are drilled conventionally and millimeter-wave drilling will not be used until the 365°C wells at the earliest.
2026-03-19 · announcement · ●●○ · published 2026-04-17verified
Fervo Energy's IPO registration statement disclosed a non-binding Geothermal Framework Agreement with Google, dated March 19, 2026, establishing a development framework for up to 3 GW of geothermal capacity for Google through 2033, including 1 GW of proposed projects in the first two years.
2026-03-19 · announcement · ●●○ · published 2026-03-19corrected
On March 19, 2026, Fervo Energy closed $421 million of non-recourse debt financing for Cape Station Phase I in Utah ($309M construction-to-term loan, $61M tax-credit bridge loan, $51M letter-of-credit facility).
2026-03-18 · announcement · ●●○ · published 2026-03-18verified
GA Drilling secured a $44.1M investment ($24.7M new capital plus $19.4M converted from a SAFE), led by TomEnterprise, to commercially deploy its NexTitan downhole anchoring-and-drive system, after a February 2026 field test at NORCE's Ullrigg facility in Norway delivered a validated 32,000 lbf thrust under downhole conditions.
2026-02-26 · achievement · ●●○ · published 2026-02-26verified
On February 26, 2026, Geothermal Engineering Ltd switched on the United Downs plant in Cornwall, the UK's first geothermal power plant, which draws water at nearly 200°C from fractured granite via a production well more than 5 km deep (the UK's deepest onshore well) and sells its output to Octopus Energy for up to 10,000 homes.
2026-02-09 · achievement · ●●○ · published 2026-02-09verified
On February 9, 2026, Fervo Energy announced that a vertical appraisal well at its new Project Blanford site in Millard County, Utah, drilled in under 11 days, measured resource temperatures above 555°F (~290°C) at about 11,200 ft, the hottest well in company history, with an independent assessment indicating multi-gigawatt resource potential in sedimentary formations.
2026-01-23 · analysis · ●●○ · published 2026-01-23verified
An IEA commentary (January 23, 2026) finds that financing for next-generation geothermal reached nearly USD 2.2 billion in 2025, up 80% year on year and up from USD 22 million in 2018, and that some next-generation geothermal developers are now securing contract prices of about USD 130/MWh versus the USD 30–60/MWh typical until 2023.
2025-12 · achievement · ●●● · published 2026-01-03verified
In December 2025, Eavor delivered first electricity from its closed-loop geothermal system at Geretsried to the German grid.
↳ corrects (or adds sources to) an earlier record: 2025-12: In December 2025, Eavor delivered first electricity from its closed-loop geothermal…
2025 · announcement · ●●○ · published 2026-01-03corrected
Sage Geosystems has a 3 MW geothermal pressure-storage facility and has a 150 MW geothermal deal with Meta.
↳ corrects (or adds sources to) an earlier record: 2025: Sage Geosystems has a 3 MW geothermal pressure-storage facility and has a 150 MW…
2025 · achievement · ●●○ · published 2026-01-03corrected
In 2025, Quaise Energy drilled to a depth of 100 meters using millimeter-wave technology, setting a record for the method.
↳ corrects (or adds sources to) an earlier record: 2025: In 2025, Quaise Energy drilled 100 m into granite using millimeter-wave technology, a…
2025 · projection · ●○○ · published 2026-01-03legacy
McKinsey analysis cites a 2030s target levelized cost of $45–65/MWh for enhanced geothermal systems.
2025 · projection · ●○○ · published 2026-01-03verified
An IEA projection, as reported by Eavor, expects geothermal electricity costs to fall about 80% by 2035, to roughly $50/MWh.
↳ corrects (or adds sources to) an earlier record: 2025: An IEA projection, as reported by Eavor, expects geothermal electricity costs to fall…
2025 · announcement · ●○○ · published 2026-01-03legacy
Plasma-drilling company GA Drilling has raised $83M and formed a partnership with Petrobras.
2025 · announcement · ●●● · published 2026-01-03corrected
In 2025, Fervo Energy raised a $462M Series E to scale its Cape Station enhanced geothermal project to 500 MW by 2028.
↳ corrects (or adds sources to) an earlier record: 2025: In 2025, Fervo Energy raised a $462M Series E to scale its Cape Station enhanced…
2025 · achievement · ●●○ · published 2026-01-03legacy
In 2025, Fervo Energy drilled an enhanced-geothermal well to 15,765 ft at 520°F and reported 79% faster drilling.
2025 · data · ●○○ · published 2025-06-30verified
Lazard's LCOE+ (June 2025) gives an unsubsidized levelized cost of $66–109/MWh for geothermal generation, a figure Lazard notes is its LCOE v14.0 result adjusted for inflation because of limited public data on new-build geothermal (a generic geothermal figure, not specific to enhanced geothermal systems).
↳ corrects (or adds sources to) an earlier record: 2025: Lazard's LCOE+ 2025 puts the current levelized cost of enhanced geothermal systems…
2025-04 · achievement · ●○○ · published 2026-03-03verified
Colorado permitting documents unsealed in February 2026 and reported by CPR News show that Occidental Petroleum's DOE-supported GLADE geothermal project in Weld County drilled twin boreholes almost four miles (~20,000 ft) deep in less than six weeks starting in April 2025, targeting rock possibly above 450°F; Oxy has not published results.
2026-10-15 · policy · ●●○ · published 2026-10-15verified
On October 15, 2026, the IEA Governing Board said about 330 million barrels had been released so far under the March 2026 collective action over the Strait of Hormuz crisis, agreed to accelerate the remaining ~100 million barrels including over 20 million barrels of diesel, and noted total releases will exceed the original 400 million barrels.
2026-10-07 · policy · ●●○ · published 2026-10-07verified
On October 7, 2026, Germany's breakthrough-innovation agency SPRIND launched a milestone-based fusion funding programme for start-ups on behalf of the research ministry, with €500 million available through 2029 and total public funding to rise to as much as €2.5 billion in the longer term.
2026-09-30 · policy · ●○○ · published 2026-09-30verified
On September 30, 2026, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 925, requiring a state strategic plan for the development of fusion energy in California.
2026-09-29 · achievement · ●●○ · published 2026-09-29verified
The US NRC issued the Tennessee Valley Authority a construction permit for a GE Vernova Hitachi BWRX-300 small modular reactor at Clinch River, Tennessee, the first US construction permit for a BWRX-300, announced September 29, 2026.
2026-09-24 · policy · ●●○ · published 2026-09-24verified
On September 24, 2026, US Representatives Zoe Lofgren and Jay Obernolte introduced the bipartisan American Leadership in Fusion Act, which would provide $10 billion in direct investment to accelerate fusion commercialization and establish an Office of Fusion at DOE (a bill, not yet law).
2026-09-23 · policy · ●●○ · published 2026-09-28verified
On September 23, 2026, Italy's Senate gave final approval to legislation establishing a framework for nuclear fission and fusion energy in Italy, with the government to adopt implementing decrees within twelve months.
2026-09-14 · policy · ●●○ · published 2026-09-14verified
At a Global Fusion Policy Summit in London on September 14, 2026, the UK and US governments issued a joint statement committing to harmonise fusion regulation, codes and standards, stating that fusion safety standards should be distinct from fission standards.
2026-09-10 · projection · ●●○ · published 2026-09-10verified
IEA's Coal Mid-Year Update 2026 now forecasts global coal demand to rise 1.2% in 2026 to a record 8.94 billion tonnes (it had been set to decline slightly), as the Strait of Hormuz LNG disruption raised gas prices and prompted gas-to-coal switching in power generation.
2026-09-09 · announcement · ●●○ · published 2026-09-09verified
On September 9, 2026, Proxima Fusion and the German state of Lower Saxony signed an MoU for Europe's first large-scale factory for fusion-grade high-temperature superconducting tape, with about €140 million to be invested in the first two phases (half public, half private; €21 million from the state) and Proxima as anchor customer.
2026-09-08 · data · ●●○ · published 2026-09-08verified
Ember's China Energy Transition Review 2026 finds clean power met all of China's electricity demand growth in 2025, pushing thermal (mostly coal) generation down 0.7% while demand rose 5%, the first fall in a decade.
2026-08-12 · policy · ●●○ · published 2026-08-12verified
On August 12, 2026, South Korea designated nuclear fusion one of seven national 'SEED' future-growth projects, targeting fusion power production by the late 2030s via public-private special purpose companies.
2026-08-12 · data · ●●○ · published 2026-08-12verified
Ember finds solar generated just over 10% of global electricity in H1 2026, a record for a first half, up from 8.9% in H1 2025 and 5.6% in H1 2023.
- 2026-07-30 · Germany's research ministry announced about €125 million in first-round funding for three national fusion hubs under its Fusion 2040 program…
2026-07-23 · projection · ●●○ · published 2026-07-23verified
IEA's Electricity Mid-Year Update 2026 forecasts global electricity demand growth of 3.6% in 2026 and 3.8% in 2027 (from 3% in 2025) and expects renewable generation to overtake coal-fired output in 2026, after near parity in 2025.
2026-07-04 · achievement · ●●○ · published 2026-07-06corrected
By July 4, 2026, four privately developed advanced test reactors (Antares Mark-0, Valar Atomics Ward 250, Deployable Energy Unity and Aalo-X) had achieved DOE-authorized criticality under the DOE Reactor Pilot Program, exceeding the executive-order goal of three; these were test-reactor criticality milestones, not commercial power generation.
2026-06-23 · data · ●●○ · published 2026-06-23verified
The Fusion Industry Association's 2026 supply-chain report finds fusion companies' supply-chain spending rose 25% to $538 million in 2025, with 75% of suppliers having invested to expand fusion capacity but 69% reporting a lack of long-term visibility of fusion demand.
2026-06-23 · policy · ●●○ · published 2026-06-23verified
The US DOE's Office of Energy Dominance Financing issued a conditional commitment for $17.5 billion of American Nuclear Supply Chain Loans to buy long-lead items for up to five two-unit Westinghouse AP1000 projects (10 reactors of 1.1 GW each); the loans are not yet finalized.
2026-06-08 · policy · ●○○ · published 2026-06-08verified
On June 8, 2026, the UK government opened consultation (to August 17, 2026) on a draft National Policy Statement for fusion energy generation (EN-8), the planning framework for consenting fusion power infrastructure.
2026-05-28 · projection · ●●○ · published 2026-05-28verified
IEA's World Energy Investment 2026 expects global energy investment to rise 5% to USD 3.4 trillion in 2026, with around USD 2.2 trillion going to renewables, nuclear, grids, storage, low-emissions fuels, efficiency and electrification and about USD 1.2 trillion to oil, gas and coal.
2026-05-21 · data · ●●○ · published 2026-05-21verified
Ember data show that in April 2026 wind and solar together generated more electricity than gas worldwide for the first month ever, 22% of global electricity (a record 531 TWh) versus 20% (477 TWh) from gas.
2026-05-07 · data · ●●○ · published 2026-05-07verified
BloombergNEF reports that global energy-storage additions excluding pumped hydro reached a record 112 GW in 2025 (307 GWh of batteries), up 48% from 2024, the first year above 100 GW.
- 2026-04-29 · On April 29, 2026, fusion developer Zap Energy (over $330 million raised) said it will also develop fission reactors, aiming to have a fissi…
2026-04-24 · setback · ●●○ · published 2026-04-24verified
IEA's Gas Market Report Q2-2026 finds the Middle East crisis has removed, for the time being, almost 20% of global LNG supply, cutting global LNG production 8% year on year in March 2026 and driving gas prices in Asia and Europe to their highest since the 2022/23 energy crisis.
2026-04-23 · achievement · ●○○ · published 2026-04-23verified
On April 23, 2026, TerraPower officially started construction of Kemmerer Unit 1, its first Natrium sodium-cooled fast reactor plant in Wyoming, which it says is on track to be the first utility-scale advanced nuclear power plant in the United States.
2026-04-21 · data · ●●○ · published 2026-04-21verified
Ember's Global Electricity Review 2026 finds that in 2025 clean power growth (887 TWh) exceeded demand growth (849 TWh, +2.8%), so global fossil generation fell 38 TWh (-0.2%), solar grew a record 636 TWh (+30%), and renewables (33.8%) overtook coal (33.0%) in the full-year global electricity mix.
2026-04-20 · data · ●●○ · published 2026-04-20corrected
IEA's Global Energy Review 2026 finds that in 2025 global energy demand grew 1.3%, solar PV met more than 25% of the growth (the first time a modern renewable led), renewable capacity additions hit a record 800 GW (75% solar) and battery storage additions rose about 40% to almost 110 GW.
2026-04-16 · data · ●●○ · published 2026-04-16verified
IEA's Key Questions on Energy and AI (April 2026) finds global data-centre electricity demand grew 17% in 2025 (AI-focused data centres +50%) and projects it to roughly double from 485 TWh in 2025 to 950 TWh in 2030, about 3% of global electricity demand.
2026-04-13 · announcement · ●●○ · published 2026-04-13verified
On April 13, 2026, Great British Energy – Nuclear and Rolls-Royce SMR signed a contract to start work on three Rolls-Royce small modular reactors at Wylfa, North Wales (at least 1.4 GWe in total), backed by a National Wealth Fund facility of up to £599 million.
2026-04-08 · policy · ●●○ · published 2026-04-09verified
On April 8, 2026, ARPA-E committed $135 million over 18 months to fusion technology development and commercialization projects, its largest concentrated fusion investment to date.
2026-04-06 · achievement · ●●○ · published 2026-04-07verified
India's 500 MWe Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor at Kalpakkam reached first criticality on April 6, 2026, a step toward the second stage of India's three-stage nuclear programme.
2026-04-03 · policy · ●●○ · published 2026-04-21verified
The US President's Budget Request for fiscal year 2027 (released April 3, 2026) requests $755.25 million for DOE's Fusion Energy Sciences programme, $50 million less than the $805.65 million appropriated for FY2026, according to the Fusion Industry Association.
2026-04-01 · data · ●●○ · published 2026-04-01verified
IRENA's Renewable Capacity Statistics 2026 report that global renewable power capacity reached 5,149 GW at end-2025 after a record 692 GW was added during 2025 (+15.5%).
2026-03-26 · policy · ●○○ · published 2026-05-27verified
An EU Task Force on Fusion Energy of national nuclear regulators, established on March 26, 2026 and announced by the European Commission on May 27, 2026, will recommend by end-2027 whether the EU needs a fusion-specific legal framework, plus fusion engineering codes and standards.
2026-03-26 · policy · ●●○ · published 2026-03-30verified
On March 26, 2026, the US NRC voted to finalize 10 CFR Part 53, an optional risk-informed, technology-inclusive licensing framework for advanced (fission) reactors, published in the Federal Register on March 30 and effective April 29, 2026.
2026-03-19 · policy · ●●○ · published 2026-03-19verified
On March 19, 2026, the European Commission adopted the 2026–2027 Euratom Research and Training Work Programme (€330 million in total), of which €222 million goes to fusion, including a new European Public-Private Partnership for fusion energy and European Innovation Council support for fusion start-ups.
2026-03-12 · policy · ●●○ · published 2026-03-14verified
China's 15th Five-Year Plan outline (2026–2030), adopted on March 12, 2026, names hydrogen and nuclear fusion energy among the future industries to be nurtured.
2026-03-12 · setback · ●●● · published 2026-03-12verified
IEA's March 2026 Oil Market Report finds the war in the Middle East is creating the largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market, with crude and product flows through the Strait of Hormuz plunging from around 20 mb/d before the war to a trickle.
2026-03-11 · policy · ●●● · published 2026-03-11corrected
On March 11, 2026, IEA member countries agreed to make 400 million barrels of emergency oil stocks available to the market in response to the Middle East war disruptions, the sixth and by far the largest collective action in the IEA's history.
2026-03-09 · achievement · ●●○ · published 2026-03-10corrected
University of Houston physicists Ching-Wu Chu and Liangzi Deng reported in PNAS on March 9, 2026 a superconducting transition temperature of 151 K at ambient pressure, retained via a ‘pressure quenching’ protocol.
2026-03-04 · achievement · ●●○ · published 2026-03-04verified
On March 4, 2026, the US NRC Commissioners voted to grant TerraPower a construction permit for Kemmerer Unit 1, its first Natrium sodium-cooled fast reactor plant in Wyoming, the first commercial-scale advanced (non-light-water) nuclear plant to receive such a permit.
2026-02-06 · data · ●●○ · published 2026-02-06verified
IEA's Electricity 2026 report finds global electricity demand grew 3% in 2025 and forecasts average growth of 3.6% a year over 2026–2030, driven by industry, electric vehicles, air conditioning and data centres.
2026-02-05 · announcement · ●●○ · published 2026-02-05verified
On February 5, 2026, Changan and CATL unveiled what they call the world's first mass-production passenger car with sodium-ion batteries (CATL Naxtra), due to reach the market by mid-2026.
2026-01 · policy · ●○○ · published 2026-01-02corrected
In January 2026, China released its first national standard for solid-state batteries.
↳ corrects (or adds sources to) an earlier record: 2026-01: In January 2026, China released its first national standard for solid-state batteries.
2026-01-26 · data · ●●○ · published 2026-01-26verified
BloombergNEF's Energy Transition Investment Trends 2026 finds global energy-transition investment reached a record $2.3 trillion in 2025, up 8% from 2024, led by electrified transport ($893 billion), renewable energy ($690 billion) and grids ($483 billion).
- 2026-01-22 · On January 22, 2026, General Fusion agreed to go public on Nasdaq (ticker GFUZ) through a business combination with Spring Valley Acquisitio…
2026-01-22 · data · ●●○ · published 2026-01-22verified
Ember's European Electricity Review 2026 finds that in 2025 wind and solar generated 30.1% of EU electricity (841 TWh), more than all fossil sources combined (29.0%, 809 TWh), for the first time.
2026-01-21 · policy · ●●○ · published 2026-01-21verified
South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT plans to invest 112.4 billion won of government funding in fusion R&D in 2026, up about 99% from 56.4 billion won in 2025.
2026-01-18 · data · ●○○ · published 2026-01-18verified
A 2026 procurement plan released by China's fusion industry alliance lists more than 120 fusion procurement projects for 2026 (centred on upgrades of EAST and BEST) with total funding approaching 10 billion yuan (about $1.37 billion), according to China Daily's report on the Fusion Energy Technology and Industry Conference 2026 in Hefei.
2026-01-15 · policy · ●●○ · published 2026-01-15verified
China's first Atomic Energy Law took effect on January 15, 2026, bringing controlled nuclear fusion into the national legal framework and explicitly encouraging fusion research and technical development.
2026-01-14 · announcement · ●○○ · published 2026-01-14verified
Chinese fusion developer Startorus Fusion announced a 1 billion yuan (about $143 million) Series A funding round, as reported by Fusion Energy Base on January 14, 2026.
2026-01-09 · announcement · ●●○ · published 2026-01-09verified
On January 9, 2026, Meta announced nuclear agreements with Vistra, TerraPower and Oklo supporting up to 6.6 GW of new and existing nuclear capacity by 2035, including funding for two TerraPower Natrium units (up to 690 MW, delivery as early as 2032) with rights to up to six more (2.1 GW by 2035).
2026-01-06 · announcement · ●○○ · published 2026-01-06verified
On January 6, 2026, Commonwealth Fusion Systems announced collaborations with NVIDIA and Siemens to build an AI-enabled digital twin of its SPARC fusion machine, using Siemens Xcelerator industrial software and NVIDIA Omniverse.
2025 · data · ●●○ · published 2026-01-03verified
US grid-scale energy storage capacity reached 40 GW in Q3 2025, surpassing a 35 GW target set in 2017.
↳ corrects (or adds sources to) an earlier record: 2025: US grid-scale energy storage capacity reached 40 GW in Q3 2025, surpassing a 35 GW…
2025 · policy · ●●○ · published 2026-01-03verified
The UK government committed £2.5 billion to fusion energy over five years.
↳ corrects (or adds sources to) an earlier record: 2025: The UK government committed £2.5 billion to fusion energy over five years.
2025 · achievement · ●○○ · published 2026-01-03corrected
Princeton researchers developed Diag2Diag, an AI system that generates synthetic diagnostic sensor data to support real-time fusion plasma control.
↳ corrects (or adds sources to) an earlier record: 2025: Princeton researchers developed Diag2Diag, an AI system that generates synthetic…
- 2025 · Google DeepMind and CFS will explore ways to improve operation of the SPARC fusion machine using AI.
2025 · announcement · ●●○ · published 2025-12-31legacy
The journal Science named the growth of renewable energy its 2025 Breakthrough of the Year.
2025 · data · ●●○ · published 2025-12-31verified
Ember's Global Electricity Mid-Year Insights 2025 found solar alone met 83% of the growth in global electricity demand in H1 2025.
↳ corrects (or adds sources to) an earlier record: 2025: Ember's Global Electricity Mid-Year Insights 2025 found solar alone met 83% of the…
- 2025 · Ember's Global Electricity Mid-Year Insights 2025 found renewables overtook coal in global electricity generation for the first time in H1 2…
2025-12 · achievement · ●○○ · published 2025-12-19verified
In December 2025, Max Planck Institute researchers measured the superconducting gap in the hydride H₃S for the first time.
↳ corrects (or adds sources to) an earlier record: 2025-12: In December 2025, Max Planck Institute researchers measured the superconducting gap in…
2025 · policy · ●●○ · published 2025-12-18corrected
CATF reported on December 18, 2025, that DOE announced the return of a standalone Office of Fusion.
↳ corrects (or adds sources to) an earlier record: 2025: The US Department of Energy established an Office of Fusion, its first standalone…
2025 · announcement · ●●○ · published 2025-04-29corrected
The NRC completed a draft safety evaluation of TerraPower’s Natrium construction permit application for Kemmerer Power Station Unit 1.
↳ corrects (or adds sources to) an earlier record: 2025: TerraPower secured $650M from investors including NVIDIA and HD Hyundai for its Natrium…
2025 · policy · ●●○ · published 2025-04-29verified
Germany signed a memorandum of understanding for a laser fusion power plant at the former Biblis nuclear site, targeted by 2035.
↳ corrects (or adds sources to) an earlier record: 2025: Germany signed a memorandum of understanding for a laser fusion power plant at the…
- 2025-11 · In November 2025, Tokamak Energy validated its Demo4 high-temperature-superconducting magnet system at 11.8 T and −243°C.
2025-10 · achievement · ●○○ · published 2025-10-31verified
In October 2025, NYU and University of Queensland researchers created superconducting germanium with superconductivity at 3.5 K.
↳ corrects (or adds sources to) an earlier record: 2025-10: In October 2025, NYU and University of Queensland researchers created superconducting…
2025-09 · announcement · ●●○ · published 2025-12-31corrected
In September 2025, NuScale, ENTRA1 and TVA signed a 6 GW small modular reactor deal, the largest SMR program in US history.
↳ corrects (or adds sources to) an earlier record: 2025-09: In September 2025, NuScale, ENTRA1 and TVA signed a 6 GW small modular reactor deal,…
2025-07 · data · ●○○ · published 2026-01-03corrected
In July 2025, the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency's SMR Dashboard Edition III identified 127 SMR technologies globally.
↳ corrects (or adds sources to) an earlier record: 2025: The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency's SMR Dashboard tracks 127 small modular reactor designs…