TVA agrees to buy 50 MW from Hermes 2 to serve Google data centres

Kairos Power/Hermes

TVA agreed to buy up to 50 MW from Kairos Power's Hermes 2 in Oak Ridge, the first US utility deal to buy power from an advanced Gen IV reactor, due to run from 2030. Google gets the clean-energy credits; it is the first project under Google's 500 MW agreement with Kairos.

• First US utility power purchase agreement for Gen IV advanced reactor.
• 50 MW from Hermes 2; scheduled operation from 2030.
• Google receives clean-energy credits for Tennessee and Alabama data centres.
• First project under Google's broader 500 MW deployment agreement with Kairos by 2035.