The Ten-Terawatt Initiative (TTI), launched by Terra Praxis at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2025 in Davos, is an innovative strategy designed to establish enabling conditions that meet real-world requirements for speed, scale, and cost-effectiveness. While ambitious, our analysis shows that satisfying these conditions and enabling the deployment of 10 TW is well within the capabilities of our industrial civilization.
We are in danger of losing our ambition to bring peace and abundance to all who live on earth. It is not necessary for more generations to live their whole lives in poverty. We do not have to choose between prosperity and health. We have the technology and infrastructure to rapidly and cost-effectively deliver civilization-scale clean energy.
Terra Praxis is launching the Ten-Terawatt Initiative (TTI) to enable universal access to clean, secure, and affordable energy at current developed country levels.1 This fundamental redirect in our global energy system will maximize the use of existing infrastructure, triple the world’s energy supply, and create unprecedented global economic growth. The exceptional power density of manufactured heat boxes (productized advanced nuclear reactors) lets us dramatically scale up the energy system while virtually eliminating its impacts on people and nature. The TTI will deploy 10 TW (ten terawatts) of low-cost, clean, firm power between 2030 and 2040, and an additional 20 TW by 2050—without requiring deployment subsidies.
This vision provides a set of requirements that guided Terra Praxis’s design process for the TTI, and defines five essential pre-conditions for lift-off in 2030:
1 Mass-manufactured heat boxes with supporting supply chains.
2 Standardized deployment architectures configured with automated design tools.
3 Product-based licensing accelerated by AI.
4 Project business models attractive to project developers.
5 Large-scale purchases by major energy users.
Achieving these conditions by 2030 enables rapid scaling in the following decades. While ambitious, our analysis shows that satisfying these conditions and enabling the deployment of 10 TW by 2040 is well within the capabilities of our industrial civilization.
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