Overview
- The alliance brings together Bavaria, Hamburg, Hesse, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein.
- It aims to link research, industry and politics through joint training programs, shared research infrastructure and supplier partnerships.
- Bavaria’s science minister Markus Blume described the founding in Munich as a “historic day for energy research in Germany.”
- The stated ambition is for the world’s first commercial fusion power plant to be built in Germany.
- Environmental groups, including Greenpeace Bavaria’s Saskia Reinbeck, argue fusion remains costly, inefficient and unlikely to contribute to power supply for decades.