Thea Energy

“Thea Energy's architecture is very much focused on: how do you create a steady-state source of fusion energy? How do you do so in a way that you can mass manufacture system components, not just for one power plant, but for multiple power plants? That is what really changes the world.” -Brian Berzin, co-founder and CEO #Fusion is the future of the world’s energy supply, and this team is working hard to make it happen with an approach that simplifies the construction and maintenance of the #stellarator.  🎥 See what we’ve been working on.

Over the last few weeks, team Thea had the chance to attend #SOFE25 and #MT29 and present across invited talks and posters on: 🧲 Using simpler, programmable magnets for #fusion and details from our Canis test campaign showing how these superconducting magnets can create and control stellarator-relevant magnetic fields 🧲 Testing and manufacturing our core technology including instrumentation, high-rate magnet production techniques, and the necessary support systems 🧲 The Company’s large-scale integrated #stellarator, Eos, and modeling its beam target neutron source 🧲 Progress towards the fuel cycle design for Helios, the Company’s fusion power plant In case you missed it, find these recent presentations, past presentations, and peer-reviewed papers on our website under “Presentations & Publications”: https://lnkd.in/ehYeRccH Thank you to the conference organizers for the opportunity to discuss our work and engage with other leaders across fusion! Plasma Science and Fusion Center at MIT & IEEE

With our partners at UC San Diego's Center for Energy Research, Thea Energy is investigating a novel concept for first-wall materials. The first wall is the innermost layer of the vacuum vessel that directly faces the hot, energetic plasma where #fusion occurs. Through an award provided by the Innovation Network for Fusion Energy (INFUSE) program and sponsored by the Fusion Energy Sciences (FES), Thea Energy and its partners at UCSD evaluated the feasibility of a solid renewable system, specifically, low-Z plasma-facing concepts for the #stellarator divertor. The divertor helps improve the stability and performance of the plasma while protecting the first wall. As part of the work, boron-based pebble rods were tested under fusion-relevant heat loads and exposed to a deuterium plasma to assess physical and chemical erosion. These results indicate their promise as plasma facing components that improve fusion fuel recovery in stellarators. To find out more, read the full results "Evaluation of a boron nitride–boron pebble aggregate material for renewable plasma-facing surfaces in magnetic fusion devices" from Dr. Erick Martinez-Loran et al. in Nuclear Materials and Energy: https://lnkd.in/es7r6Arb Find this and all of Thea Energy’s peer-reviewed publications here: https://lnkd.in/ehYeRccH

Our team is looking forward to the 2025 International Conference on Magnet Technology (MT29) taking place July 1-6 in Boston! Thea Energy will be presenting posters across most days of the conference on planar magnet array manufacturing and testing. Specific titles and sessions below. Daniel Nash, director of HTS magnet engineering, will be presenting at 8:30 a.m. ET on Saturday, July 5 on our recent milestone validating small and simple magnets can create stellarator-relevant magnetic fields for #fusion. Be sure to catch it! 🧲 Wednesday, July 2 - Wed-Af-Po.01-03: Canis: 3x3 array of sub-scale planar coils for the Eos stellarator 🧲 Thursday, July 3 - Thu-Mo-Po.04-04: Zethus: a prototype HTS planar shaping coil for the Eos stellarator - Thu-Mo-Po.09-02: Instrumentation of the Canis 3x3 superconducting magnet array - Thu-Af-Po.05-01: High-rate production and validation of Canis magnets - Thu-Af-Po.07-03: Quench simulations of a 3×3 field shaping NI HTS coil array for a planar coil stellarator 🧲 Friday, July 4 - Fri-Af-Po.03-04: The design and performance of the Canis 3x3 magnet array support systems 🧲 Saturday, July 5 - Sat-Mo-Or2-02: Prototyping and test of the Canis 3x3 magnet array for stellarator field shaping Full program: https://lnkd.in/eZq3cHx8

This week, DIII-D hosted Fusion Materials Industry Day! As the only facility in America producing fusion power plant-relevant plasmas, DIII-D provides an essential test platform for addressing the high-priority challenge of identifying and optimizing materials for future fusion power plants. For Fusion Materials Industry Day, scientists from Avalanche Energy, Tokamak Energy, and Thea Energy brought their best candidate materials for fusion device walls and plasma-facing components to DIII-D. The team worked together to test these innovative materials in the DIII-D tokamak, exposing the samples to different fusion plasma environments. The data generated during the experiments and additional post-exposure analyses of the samples will provide key data to guide decision-making for fusion device design, helping advance knowledge in this high-priority area. This collaborative effort across commercial, national laboratory, and university team members is an exciting example of how the public-private partnerships at DIII-D provide essential capabilities that are already accelerating progress toward fusion commercialization. We can’t wait to see how this week’s experiments inform the fusion devices of the future! Special acknowledgement goes out to Jonathan Coburn (Sandia National Laboratories) and Florian Effenberg (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)), co-leads of the FPP Candidate Wall Materials Thrust, and Tyler Abrams (General Atomics) and Andrew Dvorak (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), co-leads of the Plasma Interacting Technology group, for their behind-the-scenes efforts that resulted in such a successful experiment day! Angelica Ottaviano Daniel Velázquez Sergey Tsurkan Simon Corah U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science #fusionenergy #publicprivatepartnership #materialscience #tungsten #alloy #MPEA #boron #DiMES #fusion #science #technology

Attending the 2025 Symposium on #Fusion Engineering (SOFE) taking place June 23-26 in Boston? Find our team on-site to learn more about modeling the Eos beam target neutron source, Eos power supplies design, and research on the fuel cycle of Helios. An oral presentation from VP of Electrical Engineering and Controls Dr. Mikhail Slepchenkov will take place during “Parallel 3c - Power Supply Systems” on Monday, June 23 from 4-5:30 p.m. ET. Additional posters will be available during sessions on Wednesday and Thursday. Looking forward to seeing you there! Full schedule: https://ow.ly/xVlU50W6lSV Plasma Science and Fusion Center at MIT

Welcoming Jason Priebe who recently joined Thea Energy as Vice President of Operations! Jason brings 30+ years of leadership experience from deep tech and aerospace having successfully overseen large teams across multiple factories and business units. An engineer by trade, Jason is passionate about growing teams and fostering a collaborative workplace culture where everyone feels empowered, challenged, and inspired by the work they are doing. Jason will focus on building out the company infrastructure, including scaling up the manufacturing of Thea Energy’s planar coil magnets and mass-manufacturable system components.

Daniel Dudt, PhD, senior scientist at Thea Energy, is included on ASME (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers)'s 2025 Mechanical Engineering Watch List! The annual watch list spotlights early career professionals who have already left their marks on industry, academia, & society. Daniel’s work at Thea Energy is focused on numerical optimization or balancing #stellarator physics performance, engineering feasibility, and economics to find the best solutions. Daniel enjoys interdisciplinary work and that led him to a career in #fusion. He hopes the next generation of scientists and engineers are inspired by the innovation being done to advance this cutting-edge technology. Learn more about Daniel’s work and other honorees at: https://lnkd.in/eUG9EeQF

Today, we launch our Fusion Industry Supply Chain 2025 report. Here are 5 reasons why it's a good time to be in the fusion energy supply chain: 𝗢𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴 Fusion companies spent $434 million on supplies last year, double the 2023 spend, and expect another 25% jump in 2025. 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗮𝘀𝘁 Nearly every vendor surveyed saw fusion-specific revenue rise in the past 12 months and has already invested $230 million in new personnel, machines, and facilities to keep up. 𝗖𝗮𝗽𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴 From big venture rounds to targeted public programs (like the US DOE’s $80 million HTS-wire grant and the UK’s Fusion Futures), fresh funding is de-risking capacity build-outs. 𝗟𝗼𝘄-𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗸 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀, 𝗵𝘂𝗴𝗲 𝘂𝗽𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲 Aerospace, medical-device, and semiconductor suppliers can tweak existing products for fusion, banking near-term revenue while positioning for an expanding fusion market. 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗽𝗮𝘆 𝘁𝘄𝗶𝗰𝗲 Advances in magnets, lasers, and cryogenics for fusion are already spawning new applications in other sectors, yielding more return on every R&D dollar. If you want more details on who is making big investments in fusion, find the link to the FIA Fusion Industry Supply Chain Report 2025 in the comments 👇

Got back from a visit to another of Lowercarbon Capital's #fusionenergy companies Thea Energy in NJ last week, and I’ve gotta say—these folks are doing fusion their own way, and it’s seriously impressive. Instead of the usual twisted-up stellarator headache (no offense to all the other worthy stellarator companies!), Thea’s gone with a clean, modular approach: arrays of planar high-temperature-superconducting coils, all tuned with #AI and machine learning. Elegant, compact, and precise. In just over a year, they’ve already demonstrated both a single coil and a full coil array. That’s fast. I toured their lab, where they’re testing everything at cryogenic temps (left photo), and enjoyed a drink with their CTO David Gates (right photo). If you’re even remotely fusion-curious, check out Thea’s website (https://thea.energy)—the graphics are some of the slickest in the field.