Google signs deal to buy 200 MW of electricity from planned fusion plant in Virginia

Google and Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) have signed a strategic partnership agreement. Under the deal, Google has secured 200 MW of electricity from CFS’s planned first fusion power plant in Virginia, as well as an option to buy electricity from other similar CFS facilities. CFS announced the deal in a press release.

Google has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) for 200 MW of electricity from CFS’s planned fusion power plant in Virginia. CFS expects the plant to start supplying electricity to the grid as early as the beginning of the next decade.

Google has been an investor in CFS since 2021 and has also increased its stake in the company under the newly announced strategic partnership.

"By entering into this agreement with CFS, we want to help advance a promising path toward the commercial use of fusion energy. We are pleased to make this long-term bet on a technology with transformative potential to meet future global energy demand, and to support CFS in its efforts to achieve the scientific and technological progress needed to get there," said Michael Terell, Google’s director of advanced energy.

CFS believes its technology will be part of the world’s first large-scale fusion power plant.

"Harnessing fusion energy is within reach, thanks in part to forward-looking partners such as Google, which is known as a technology pioneer across a range of industries," added Bob Mumgaard, CFS’s CEO and co-founder.