The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation issued the state's first fusion-specific byproduct material license to Type One Energy for its commercial fusion project, making Tennessee the first US state to license a commercial fusion machine under a new regulatory framework.
New Mexico's Economic Development Department approved a Job Training Incentive Program (JTIP) award of up to $2,412,426 to Pacific Fusion as part of a round of roughly $12m spread across 27 companies, alongside Boeing and Stack Infrastructure. It is the company's second and substantially larger JTIP package: the first, approved in November 2025, covered 46 trainees at an average hourly wage of $61 for up to $1,476,806. The award subsidises training for the workforce at the Albuquerque Mesa del Sol research and manufacturing campus and the Los Lunas build centre, and is a state-funded operating subsidy rather than company capital.
Pacific Fusion Corp. filed a federal lobbying registration under the Lobbying Disclosure Act, signed 10 June 2026, engaging Greenberg Traurig LLP to work energy and defence policy in Washington. It is the company's first known federal lobbying effort, and follows its $1 billion New Mexico campus commitment and a public citation by Senator Martin Heinrich (D-NM) in March 2026. The registration signals that Pacific Fusion is building a Washington presence around the national-security dimension of high-yield fusion, ahead of the NNSA memorandum of understanding it would sign in August 2026.
Helion Energy is developing a tiny merge fusion testbed to accelerate progress toward meeting its ambitious timeline for delivering fusion power to Microsoft.
The Tennessee Valley Authority and the state of Tennessee are partnering with the United Kingdom to accelerate nuclear fusion development. The collaboration involves Type One Energy.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory licensed pellet injector technology to Type One Energy, marking a step toward fusion electricity generation in East Tennessee.
Barclays announced it is supporting the UK Infinity Fusion Consortium, providing expertise in energy, infrastructure, project finance, and capital markets to advance a commercial fusion power plant project in the UK.
Type One Energy CEO Chris Mowry is focused on shifting fusion from lab achievements to real utility deals, emphasizing cost, reliability, and paying customers.
Mazama Energy said it will begin a new phase of drilling and field operations at its Newberry Volcano site in central Oregon in Q2 2026, focused on additional high-temperature wells. The reported sequence is an observation well in the second quarter of 2026 followed by an injection well in the third quarter. The company describes the 2026 programme as intended to move the project from pilot-scale testing toward commercial development, following its 2025 Superhot Rock Enhanced Geothermal System pilot at Newberry where it reported a bottomhole temperature of 331 C (629 F). No new temperature or power-output result was reported: this is an announced plan for future work, not a completed technical result.
The World Economic Forum named Mazama Energy among its 2026 Technology Pioneers, recognizing the company's innovative contributions to geothermal energy technology.