Fusion Leader Commonwealth Plans First-Ever Commercial Plant
- Commonwealth plans Arc fusion system near Virginia gas plant
- Company is already building demonstration fusion system
Workers at the Commonwealth Fusion Systems campus in Devens, Massachusetts.
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Commonwealth Fusion Systems LLC, a leader in the race to develop fusion power, has leased a site for its first commercial-scale power plant in a sign of confidence that it can build a system harnessing the energy of the stars.
Commonwealth said this would mark the world’s first grid-scale commercial plant for the power source, though it’s still several years away. The company plans to build the system near a Dominion Energy Inc. natural gas plant in Virginia, about 15 miles (24 kilometers) south of Richmond, according to a statement Tuesday.