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Forbes, “Was 2021 A Breakthrough Year For Fusion Energy?”

By ECG Jan 07, 2022

“2021 has become a watershed year for fusion energy, with $5 billion of investment in fusion device efforts and recognition of fusion energy as a climate change mitigation power source by the first ever inclusion of fusion in the official dialogue of COP26, to name only two in a long…

Blog, Fusion, Technology Milestones

2021: The Dawn of the Fusion Age

By Jane Hotchkiss Jan 04, 2022

When humanity looks back at the history of climate actions advanced to build its non-carbon energy cycle, fusion, and the year 2021 will stand out. The year saw significant, announced milestones in plasma physics and engineering—in superconducting magnets and sustained plasma temperatures, for example—complemented by investment milestones—at least $4 billion…

Climate Change, ECG in the News, Fusion, Technology Milestones

Boston Globe, “After years of doubts, hopes grow that nuclear fusion is finally for real and could help address climate change”

By ECG Dec 28, 2021

“I started in renewables 25 years ago, when we were being told that photovoltaics was a pipe dream, similar to what the conversation is today about fusion,” said Jane Hotchkiss, president of Energy Common Good, a Concord-based advocacy group for fusion energy. “It’s not just about technological viability; there are…

Climate Change, Events, Fusion

Environmental & policy groups begin to explore the potential of fusion energy

By Wallace Johnston Dec 13, 2021

Last week delivered another milestone in the move toward fusion energy, as environmental and policy groups began to focus on not only the potential of fusion, but on creating the framework for delivering the message to their constituencies. Organized by the Environmental League of Massachusetts (ELM) and the Conservation Law…

ECG in the News, Fusion

ECG President Jane Hotchkiss on The Stream

By ECG Dec 09, 2021

"We celebrate all the global private and public fusion development going on because this is a very exciting moment in fusion and in clean energy. For instance, two companies in the U.S. have raised $4 billion in the last two months. This equals 10% of our total fusion research funding…

Climate Change

A game changer in our war on climate change

By ECG Dec 02, 2021

Fusion energy is not only coming, the private device companies and their investors are steaming ahead. Yesterday, Commonwealth Fusion Systems, building its proof-of-concept compact fusion device at Devens, Massachusetts, announced $1.8 billion in funding commitments and a net energy goal of 2025. This week, General Fusion closed an oversubscribed $130 million financing round; this…

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Time.com, “Nuclear Fusion Finally Finds Its Place in the Sun”

By ECG Nov 29, 2021

“Fusion is the planet’s moon shot to climate change solutions. We have to stop treating it like a scientific research project and treat it like a future commercial product.” - Jane Hotchkiss, ECG President ECG’s president points to the need for major investment from both venture capitalists and government, for…

Climate Change, ECG in the News

UN COP26 President, PM Boris Johnson, invites fusion to the table for UN climate discussion

By ECG Nov 20, 2021

ECG’s President, Jane Hotchkiss, noted that the event itself was a milestone, "We are, right now, witnessing fusion energy's involvement in the climate discussion, and until now that's never happened." For the first time, fusion was a part of the global climate discussion at the 26th UN Conference of the…

Fusion

News from COP26 – and fusion events to watch for

By ECG Nov 05, 2021

News from COP26 – and fusion events to watch for For the first time in the history of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Climate Change, fusion power is part of the discussion. The fusion conversation was kicked off at COP26 in Glasgow yesterday (November…

Fusion

Energy for the Common Good is at COP26 in Scotland!

By ECG Nov 02, 2021

We’re on our way to COP26 in Scotland… Beginning this week, fusion will finally have a voice on the global climate stage. Here at the 26th Annual Conference of the parties (Glasgow until the 12th), Prime Minister Boris Johnson requested fusion’s inclusion at the conference alongside other clean energy technologies…