Seattle startup Avalanche Energy plans to open a first-of-its-kind facility for commercial-scale testing of radioactive fusion technologies in Eastern Washington. The envisioned center, called FusionWERX, is a public-private partnership offering… Read More
Helion Energy announced a $425 million funding round that will help the Seattle-area fusion company chase the “Holy Grail” of clean energy. The company’s new investors include SoftBank, Lightspeed Venture… Read More
Artificial intelligence and the data centers that drive the technology are booming with no end in sight. That’s putting mounting pressure on tech giants to come up with climate friendly… Read More
Washington state — a region once blessed with an overabundance of clean, affordable power thanks to its hydroelectric dams — can no longer make that claim. Energy use is surging… Read More
Editor’s note: This series profiles five of the Seattle region’s “Uncommon Thinkers”: inventors, scientists, technologists and entrepreneurs transforming industries and driving positive change in the world. They will be recognized Dec. 12… Read More
Fusion company Zap Energy today shared news on progress with its power plant system demo and gave details on the investors of its $130 million round, which GeekWire first reported… Read More
General Fusion, a fusion energy company based in British Columbia, announced nearly $15 million in new funding on Thursday. The investment will be used for the development of its demonstration… Read More
Fusion company Zap Energy is raising a huge new investment — nearly $130 million — according to an SEC filing posted Wednesday. The company declined to comment. Everett, Wash.-based Zap… Read More
Kyoto Fusioneering, a startup developing technologies for the commercialization of fusion energy, has raised nearly $6.9 million in new funding. The Tokyo-based company has its U.S. office in Seattle. In-Q-Tel… Read More
Concerns about operations at Helion Energy, an Everett, Wash.-based fusion company, is the focus of reporting published today by Bloomberg. The article notes that the company, which has drawn big… Read More
The fusion industry last year pulled in more than $900 million of private and public funding in the quest to produce power by smashing atoms together. That brings the total… Read More
The Seattle-area fusion company Helion Energy is talking with OpenAI about a deal in which the AI company “would buy vast quantities of electricity to provide power for data centers,”… Read More
While the reality of affordable fusion energy is still an atom-smashing twinkle in physicists’ eyes, the state of Washington is moving ahead with plans to support the nascent commercial fusion… Read More
The nuclear fusion sector is hot. Maybe not 100 million degrees Celsius — which is the sort of mind-blowing temperature needed to make this futuristic power source possible — but… Read More
The news: General Fusion today announced $25 million in new funding and plans to build a demonstration machine in its home province of British Columbia. Fusion energy companies are attempting… Read More
Fusion startup ExoFusion today announced that it raised a seed round of an undisclosed amount. The company launched last year and is offering intellectual property and licensing of technology to… Read More
Funding news: The Seattle area’s Zap Energy will receive $5 million from a newly launched federal program supporting the commercial development of fusion power. The U.S. Department of Energy’s Milestone-Based… Read More
Microsoft and Helion Energy on Wednesday announced a historic agreement that could pave the way to the world’s first fusion power plant. Helion plans to build the commercial facility in… Read More
The news: Micro-fusion startup Avalanche Energy announced a $40 million funding round on Monday. The Seattle-based company is developing a small-scale solution for fusion power, which is called clean energy’s… Read More
CTFusion, a spinoff from the University of Washington, has flipped off the reactor and folded up shop. But the startup’s expertise is not lost: three of its four co-founders have… Read More
U.S. physicists have accomplished a feat the world has pursued for more than 60 years: producing more energy from fusion than required to create the reaction. Called energy’s “holy grail,”… Read More
The Sun is the ultimate fusion machine, endlessly smashing atoms together and creating power. For decades, physicists have struggled to create fusion on Earth in a reliable, cost-effective manner. If… Read More
The news: Seattle-area startup Zap Energy is edging closer to the promise of fusion power. The company Wednesday announced two milestones: its newest prototype device has created plasma, a superheated… Read More
As Avalanche Energy founders Robin Langtry and Brian Riordan have been grinding through the development of their fusion technology, they keep expecting to hit a wall. The team is taking… Read More
The news: The fusion energy field just keeps getting hotter. British Columbia’s General Fusion on Tuesday said that it has raised $130 million in funding to develop its ambitious clean… Read More
For decades, the promise of harnessing the power of fusion on a commercial scale to create vast amounts of carbon-free energy has hovered just out of reach for scientists. At… Read More
Fusion energy company Helion raised a whopping $500 million, with the possibility of an additional $1.7 billion in funding if key milestones are achieved in the coming months and years.… Read More
Burnaby, B.C.-based General Fusion says it has closed on a $65 million equity financing round that will spark the launch of a program to design, construct and operate a demonstration… Read More
The Canadian government says it’s investing $37.5 million (49.3 million Canadian dollars) in General Fusion, a British Columbia company that aims to build a prototype plant powered by nuclear fusion.… Read More
TAE Technologies, the fusion energy venture backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and other heavy-hitters, is elevating Michl Binderbauer to CEO and bringing former General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt onto… Read More
