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Can fusion provide firm, baseload power?
Firm, dispatchable power is the whole point of the Kronos design — city-scale electricity that runs day and night, independent of weather.
The grid's hardest problem is not generating energy — it is generating firm energy: power that is there when demand is, regardless of weather. Wind and sun are cheap but intermittent; they need something firm behind them. Kronos designs MetroVolt to be that firm generator.
A MetroVolt unit is designed for 0.61–0.84 GWe of net electric output, with a three-unit station in the 1.8–2.5 GWe range — city-scale, dispatchable, and low-carbon. Because the output is DC-native from direct energy conversion, it also couples cleanly to large constant loads such as data centers and industrial heat.
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Can a fusion plant run as firm, always-on power?
Yes — that is the design intent. A Kronos MetroVolt unit is engineered as a firm, dispatchable generator: city-scale electricity available day and night, independent of wind and sun. This is the differentiator versus intermittent renewables, which need firm backup.
How much power per unit?
The design point delivers net electric output of 0.61–0.84 GWe per unit (Q_eng 2.1–2.7). A three-unit station reaches roughly 1.8–2.5 GWe.
Is this a built machine today?
No. These are design-point figures for the MetroVolt architecture, validated against a deposited 81-simulation record and advanced through a dated, pre-registered gate schedule. Kronos publishes the numbers and the open questions together.