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How do MetroVolt and AEGIS differ?
They share one architecture but serve different markets: MetroVolt is the commercial grid generator; AEGIS is the defense-oriented, resilient, islandable variant.
One architecture, two markets. See MetroVolt, AEGIS, and the shared S.M.A.R.T. architecture they run on.
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What's the difference between MetroVolt and AEGIS?
They're two products on the same S.M.A.R.T. architecture. MetroVolt is the commercial generator — firm, city-scale grid power. AEGIS is the defense-oriented variant, engineered for resilient, islandable power in mission-critical settings, with design tiers in the ~651–894 MWe class.
Why two products instead of one?
Because commercial and defense customers value different things — grid integration and cost for one, resilience and energy independence for the other. Sharing one validated architecture means development for each reinforces the other rather than splitting effort.
Is the underlying technology the same?
Yes — the same negative-triangularity spherical tokamak, low-neutron D–³He fuel, high-field magnets, and direct energy conversion. The differences are in configuration and application, not core physics.