The USD1 billion New Mexico Research and Manufacturing Campus at Mesa del Sol will house the company’s Demonstration System, designed to achieve net facility gain – more fusion energy out than all the energy stored in the system – by 2030. Pacific Fusion will launch its manufacturing operations in New Mexico before the end of the year, with facility construction set to begin in 2026.
Pacific Fusion said the Demonstration System is designed to “deliver 100-fold higher facility gain at 10-fold lower cost than the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a 1,000-fold leap in practical fusion performance”. It also builds on decades of scientific and engineering advances at the Z Facility at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, its research partner.
The company noted that it continues to expand its headquarters, including its three Research and Development Campuses, in California.
“These developments keep us on track to deliver the first commercial fusion system in the United States by the mid-2030s and then move quickly to scaled deployment of affordable fusion energy,” it said.
Upon finalisation, the New Mexico Research and Manufacturing Campus project will bring more than 200 long-term jobs to the state, along with hundreds more construction jobs, workforce development programmes, and regional economic activity.
“Pacific Fusion’s decision to build in New Mexico proves that our state can compete – and win – in the race to attract the most innovative companies in the world,” said New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham. “This project will create good jobs, expand our clean-tech economy, and ensure New Mexico continues to lead in the industries of the future.”
Pacific Fusion was founded in 2023 to deliver affordable fusion energy. Its technology builds on New Mexico’s legacy of applied physics and clean-energy innovation, including decades of research at Sandia National Laboratories.
