Fusion energy start-up Focused Energy and German energy company RWE have signed an agreement to build a 1GW fusion power plant at the former Biblis nuclear power plant site in Hesse, Germany, according to Reuters.
Fusion is a potential source of almost limitless clean energy, which is seen as vital for energy security and the climate crisis. It uses the same process that powers the Sun by combining two forms of hydrogen and heating them at extreme temperatures.
There is currently a worldwide race towards commercialising fusion; however, given the infrastructure needed to produce this energy on a large scale, it is widely considered that it will not form part of our energy mix in the near future.
The agreement between Focused Energy and RWE will see a fusion pilot plant built at the Biblis site by 2035.
RWE has been decommissioning and dismantling the two-unit plant since 2017. First commissioned in 1974, it is Germany’s oldest nuclear plant. It was shut indefinitely in 2011 as a result...