Proxima Fusion

Over the next year, this manufacturing hall in Switzerland will be home to the most ambitious magnet project in fusion – our Stellarator Model Coil (SMC). 🧲 The coil we build here in collaboration with the PSI Paul Scherrer Institut will be a critical milestone on our path to the world’s first stellarator fusion power plant. Design: ✅ Cable prototypes: ✅ Smaller scale magnets: ✅ Now it's time to go big.

Last week, Munich hosted something special. We were proud to sponsor #OSSFE, the Open Source Software for Fusion Energy conference – welcoming 120 researchers, engineers, and developers to the Munich Urban Colab. Highlights included a hackathon, presentations from across our team, and a tour of the Proxima lab. Open-source software is critical infrastructure for fusion. By building in the open, we move faster, we build better, and we grow a global community that's invested in making this technology work. Thanks to everyone who made the trip to Munich! See you at the next one 🧑💻 📸: Sebastian Jauregui

A decisive step toward European commercial fusion power. Proxima CEO Francesco Sciortino signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Dr. Markus Söder, Markus Blume, Hubert Aiwanger, Markus Krebber, and Sibylle Günter at the Bavarian State Chancellery this morning, aligning on a concrete path to building the first commercial stellarator fusion power plant, Stellaris. The roadmap is clear: our net energy gain demonstration stellarator, Alpha, will be built in Garching near Munich, next to the IPP, while Stellaris will subsequently be built at the former power plant site in Gundremmingen. By linking scientific leadership, industrial expertise, and public commitment, this cooperation between RWE, the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP), and Freistaat Bayern lays the foundation for a new European fusion ecosystem – strengthening energy sovereignty, creating economic opportunities, and opening the door to a world powered by safe, clean, and abundant fusion energy. Fusion is moving from the lab to the grid in Europe. 🇪🇺⚡ Read more: https://lnkd.in/deCUdvK4

Today we’re launching the Alpha Alliance, a consortium of 30+ industrial companies and research partners joining forces with Proxima Fusion to deliver Alpha, our net energy gain demonstration stellarator. We’re aligning Europe’s strong fusion ecosystem behind a concrete engineering project, building the supply chains and industrial capabilities required for future commercial stellarators – including our first-of-a-kind fusion power plant, Stellaris. Learn more about the Alliance: alpha-alliance.org AFRY, Air Liquide, Ampegon, Bilfinger, DWE, DAHER INDUSTRIAL SERVICES GmbH, Diamond Materials, Dockweiler AG, Eni, ENSA, Fusion for Energy, Framatome GmbH, Fujikura Europe, Kraftanlagen Energies & Services, Kyoto Fusioneering, Mühlbauer Group, Pfeiffer Vacuum GmbH, pro-beam Group, RWE, RI Research Instruments GmbH, Rolf Kind GmbH, SIMIC, Siemens Energy, Thales, Theva Dünnschichttechnik GmbH, TRUMPF, VIA electronic GmbH, Walter Tosto S.p.A., Wälischmiller Engineering GmbH, Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, SPRIND - Bundesagentur für Sprunginnovationen, PSI Paul Scherrer Institut, EPFL, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

Security needs competitiveness. On the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, today I joined Iwona Anna Biernat, Ann Mettler and Dr. Barbara Mehner to talk about the importance of EU–INC. The EU Inc must be a genuine European alternative to a Delaware Corp. We need one structure, one digital-first European registry, one rulebook. In Iwona's words, "anything less is status quo with better branding". Doing what's right is going to roughen some feathers among incumbents - businesses that rely on Europe's fragmentation - but we *must* move forward. It's now or never. Companies like Proxima Fusion can't be just German, Italian or French - we are born European, and we must be able to work as European. President Ursula von der Leyen, Commissioner Ekaterina Zaharieva: we count on your leadership to drive EU Inc to be EU regulation rather than a directive, and to do it fast, in 2026. On today's panel, I shared among other things about my frustration with existing stock options programs, especially in Germany - they are utterly inadequate. Founders shouldn't have to apologize to their team members for legislation that they didn't make, yet that's a common experience. If we get EU Inc right (hey, there's a good script to do so: https://www.eu-inc.org/), we can fix stock options now, across Europe, for good.

Great to welcome Commissioner Dan Jørgensen to Proxima HQ, where we’re building Europe’s flagship fusion infrastructure project. 🇪🇺⚡ Fusion is a massive industrial manufacturing opportunity across superconductors, advanced materials, robotics, precision engineering, vacuum systems, and more – scaling into jobs, growth, European technological leadership and energy independence. To move fast, we need the right framework: fusion must be treated legislatively like other clean energy technologies, with the same access to funding and support. That means the upcoming EU Fusion Strategy must prioritize commercialization, and Europe needs a clear permitting and policy pathway for first-of-a-kind fusion facilities – because the choices made this year will shape Europe’s fusion future for decades. Wolfgang Bücherl, Barbara Gessler