Google announced that it has signed the largest-ever direct corporate offtake agreement for fusion energy with Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), as well as an investment in CFS, aimed at supporting the CFS’ efforts to bring fusion power to the grid at scale, and the development of its first commercial plant.
Fusion, the process of combining two atoms to form a single atom to release energy, has been long referred to as the “Holy Grail” of clean and abundant energy production, given its potential to produce power from hydrogen – the most common element in the universe – without producing carbon emissions associated with fossil-fuel based power,
