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TAE Technologies

Private fusion energy developer (CEO Michl Binderbauer); company press release

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Energy & Data Centers
“Copernicus is expected to demonstrate the viability of net energy generation using TAE's advanced beam-driven FRC approach before the end of the decade.”
TAE TechnologiesCEO

Private fusion energy developer (CEO Michl Binderbauer); company press release on Nature Communications results from its Norm machine

Said Apr 15, 2025Deadline Dec 31, 2029TAE Technologies press release, 'TAE Technologies Delivers Fusion Breakthrough that Dramatically Reduces Cost of a Future Power Plant', April 15, 2025

TAE has since said its smaller Norm machine performed well enough to 'leapfrog' the originally planned device, so the configuration that must show net-energy viability by 2029 may change; the milestone itself remains unmet.

Energy & Data Centers
“TAE will develop its first prototype hydrogen-boron fusion power plant, Da Vinci, to deliver electricity to the grid in the early 2030s.”
TAE TechnologiesCEO

Private fusion energy developer (CEO Michl Binderbauer); company press release

Said 2023Deadline Dec 31, 2033TAE Technologies press release, 'TAE Technologies applauds California's landmark fusion energy bill', 2023 (PR Newswire)

Da Vinci has not been built; TAE's intermediate machine Copernicus has yet to demonstrate net energy, and the early-2030s grid-electricity target remains open.