Every Reliable Power Source Is Already Spoken For. What Comes Next?

Issued on behalf of General Fusion Group Ltd.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Sept. 04, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Equity Insider News Commentary - At a time when grid operators are fielding interconnection requests measured in hundreds of gigawatts, contractors who build data centers are reporting the largest order books in their histories, and independent power producers are signing agreements to build dedicated power generation projects for single hyperscale customers, demand for clean, constant, around-the-clock electricity is no longer a forecast – it's a backlog. What remains unsettled is which technologies will arrive in time to serve that demand, and one company has just become the first of its kind to put that question to public-market investors. General Fusion is pursuing a practical approach to fusion energy – the same energy source powering the sun and stars. If successfully commercialized, zero-carbon fusion could transform the energy sector as we know it.

Companies mentioned in today’s commentary include: General Fusion Group Ltd. (Nasdaq: GFUZ), NRG Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NRG), EMCOR Group, Inc. (NYSE: EME), Comfort Systems USA, Inc. (NYSE: FIX), and Sterling Infrastructure, Inc. (Nasdaq: STRL).

Key Takeaways

• A first-of-its-kind public listing. General Fusion became the first publicly listed fusion company through its July 2026 Nasdaq listing, bringing to the public markets more than two decades of technology development, an effort recently recognized by TIME Magazine, and Lawson Machine 26 (“LM26”), which the Company describes as the first Magnetized Target Fusion demonstration machine built at a commercially relevant scale. It entered those markets with approximately US$150 million in cash, inclusive of net transaction proceeds from the private placement and trust capital, to fund its program through several planned milestones by the end of 2028.
  
• Two decades of development behind it. General Fusion brings more than twenty years of technology development to the listing – an effort recently recognized by TIME, which named General Fusion the World’s Top Green Tech Company for 2026. The company operates LM26, which it describes as the first Magnetized Target Fusion demonstration machine built at a commercially relevant scale.
  
• A deliberately different commercial machine. Magnetized Target Fusion compresses plasma mechanically rather than relying on enormous superconducting magnets used in tokamaks or the arrays of high-powered lasers used in inertial confinement fusion – an architecture the company describes as leveraging existing industrial materials and supply chains.
  
• A measurable technical step. The company reported plasma electron heating to approximately 0.72 keV, about 8.4 million degrees Celsius, using lithium-liner compression, which it frames as progress toward a near-term 1 keV objective, then 10 keV, and ultimately the Lawson criterion, the combination of fusion parameters that can produce net fusion energy in the plasma.
  
• Commercial scaffolding, not commercial production. A milestone-based framework agreement with Italy’s Renexia S.p.A. (part of the Toto Group), a technology collaboration with General Atomics on plasma diagnostics, and a Market Development Advisory Committee of utilities and industrial partners sit alongside a first-of-a-kind plant targeted around 2035.
  
  

The Demand Is Already Booked
For over 20 years, General Fusion has been advancing its practical technology, building prototypes and publishing meaningful results, as it advances its mission of bringing its practical fusion technology to the grid.

Now, technology advances are converging with market tailwinds. One of the strongest tailwinds is the electrification of transport and industry that has been building for over a decade. Artificial intelligence significantly changed the slope of the curve, and the change shows up in contracted order books rather than in projections. Companies that design and install the electrical and mechanical systems inside data centers are reporting record backlogs. Firms that prepare the ground those campuses sit on are doing the same. Independent power producers are agreeing to build dedicated power generation projects for single hyperscale customers.

That matters to fusion for a specific reason. The strongest argument against any long-dated energy technology has always been that the market would be adequately served before it arrived. The counter argument now writes itself: grid planners in the largest U.S. markets are describing load growth that outpaces available supply well into the 2030s, and the gap is being closed with gas turbines and reactor life extensions because those are the options that exist. A third source of firm, clean, around-the-clock power would not be entering a saturated market. It would be entering one that is currently rationing.

Decades of advances in plasma physics, high-performance computing, advanced manufacturing, and digital controls have converged with rapidly growing global demand for clean, reliable baseload power, creating the conditions for fusion to transition from scientific promise toward commercial reality. This helps explain why capital and attention have moved toward the field now rather than at any point in the previous four decades, and why the first public listing in the sector arrived in 2026 rather than 2016.

A Deliberately Different Commercial Machine
Most fusion programs pursue one of two demanding paths: enormous superconducting-magnet tokamaks, or arrays of powerful lasers. General Fusion Group Ltd. (Nasdaq: GFUZ) pursues a third, Magnetized Target Fusion, which compresses a magnetized plasma mechanically using a liquid lithium liner. The architecture described here is the one the Company is pursuing for its commercial machine, distinct from the LM26 demonstration machine discussed below. The company describes the approach as enabling a simpler machine architecture that leverages existing industrial materials and supply chains, with the aim of avoiding much of the cost and complexity associated with other fusion technologies.

The distinction is economic before it is scientific. The skepticism about fusion’s commercial future has been less about whether the reaction can be achieved, and more about whether any resulting machine could be manufactured, maintained, and repeated at a cost that produces sellable electricity. An approach that sidesteps the most expensive and fragile components is a bet that buildability and durability, not peak performance, are the binding constraint.

What the Machine Has Actually Shown
General Fusion has been advancing that approach through its LM26 program, which it describes as the first Magnetized Target Fusion demonstration machine built at a commercially relevant scale. The company recently reported demonstrating plasma heating to approximately 0.72 keV, roughly 8.4 million degrees Celsius, by compressing a plasma with a lithium liner, which it characterizes as more than tripling electron temperature through mechanical compression. It frames the result as progress toward a near-term objective of 1 keV, on the way to 10 keV, and ultimately the Lawson criterion, the combination of plasma temperature, density and confinement time at which a plasma produces more fusion energy than is required to sustain it.¹

Two things should be said plainly about that. The first is that these are incremental scientific milestones on a long ladder, not a demonstration of net energy. The second is that reaching the Lawson criterion, not any single temperature record, is what would signal that the underlying physics can support a first-of-a-kind plant. The value of the result is that it was produced by the mechanism the whole architecture depends on. Compression worked as the design predicted, at a scale the company considers commercially relevant.

The First Public Fusion Company
Following its business combination with Spring Valley Acquisition Corp. III, General Fusion began trading on Nasdaq under the ticker GFUZ in July 2026, entering the public markets with approximately US$150 million in cash, inclusive of net transaction proceeds from the private placement and trust capital. The company expects that capital to fund the LM26 program across several planned technical milestones through the end of 2028.

The listing gives public-market investors their first direct, listed route into fusion, a field that until now belonged to private venture capital, governments, and strategic investors. It cuts both ways, and the second edge deserves as much attention as the first. Visibility, access to capital and a public currency for partnerships come attached to quarterly scrutiny and share-price volatility applied to a deeply long-dated, pre-revenue scientific endeavour with a first-of-a-kind plant targeted around 2035.

Building the Commercial Scaffolding
A new energy source needs more than a working machine. It needs partners, suppliers, regulators, and eventually customers, and General Fusion has been assembling early pieces of that structure. On the commercial side it announced a milestone-based framework agreement with Renexia S.p.A.(part of the Toto Group),, covering potential deployment of its technology in Italy is an early step. On the technology side, it expanded a collaboration with General Atomics to advance the plasma diagnostics needed to measure temperatures above 10 keV during the next phase of the LM26 program. It also engages utilities, industrial companies, and energy developers through a Market Development Advisory Committee.

Collectively these steps describe the difference between a research program and a company attempting to commercialize one. Fusion also carries a regulatory advantage worth noting: it produces no high-level or long-lived radioactive waste and cannot sustain a chain reaction, and regulators in several jurisdictions have been developing frameworks that treat it differently from fission. Whether those frameworks hold as the technology approaches deployment is an open question, not a settled one.

The Companies Being Paid to Build the Load
The four companies below are referenced solely as market and sector context. They are large, established, revenue-generating businesses and none of them is a peer, competitor or financial comparable of General Fusion. They are named because their contracted order books are the clearest available measure of the electricity demand that gives any new firm, clean baseload source its commercial rationale. Their results say nothing about General Fusion’s prospects.

NRG Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NRG)
NRG is where the demand meets generation. In its second quarter of 2026, reported August 4, adjusted EBITDA rose about 34% year over year and the company reaffirmed full-year guidance while disclosing a Bring Your Own Power arrangement with a leading global cloud and AI customer for a 1.2 gigawatt combined-cycle natural gas project in Texas, with potential expansion to 2.4 gigawatts. It has secured 5.4 gigawatts of turbine and engineering capacity through 2032. The honest note is that the print was received badly, with shares falling sharply on an earnings miss before recovering later in the month. That volatility is itself informative: the market is repricing power producers around load growth faster than the quarterly numbers can follow.

EMCOR Group, Inc. (NYSE: EME)
EMCOR builds the electrical and mechanical systems that data centers run on. Its second-quarter 2026 revenue reached $5.15 billion, up 19.8% year over year, with diluted earnings per share of $9.06, and remaining performance obligations of $17.14 billion at June 30, up 43.9% year over year with roughly 95% of that growth organic rather than acquired. Network and communications produced the largest increase, reflecting data-center activity, and the company raised full-year revenue guidance to a range of $20 billion to $20.5 billion. Contracted obligations of that size are a commitment to electricity consumption several years forward.

Comfort Systems USA, Inc. (NYSE: FIX)
Comfort Systems USA reported second-quarter 2026 revenue up 50% year over year, earnings per share up 92%, and quarterly cash flow above $1 billion, with backlog of $14.06 billion at June 30, 2026 against $8.12 billion a year earlier. Chief Executive Brian Lane described record results across virtually every aspect of the business. The company is a late-cycle contractor, which means today’s backlog reflects projects committed one to two years ago and provides visibility well into 2027 and beyond. It is a useful reminder that the buildout now underway was decided before fusion had a listed share price.

Sterling Infrastructure, Inc. (Nasdaq: STRL)
Sterling Infrastructure does the work that happens before any of the above, turning open ground into an engineered campus. Second-quarter 2026 revenue rose about 90% to $1.17 billion with adjusted diluted earnings per share up 116%, and combined backlog reached $5.62 billion at June 30, up 150% year over year. Of the signed E-Infrastructure backlog, 92% is tied to mission-critical work including data centers, semiconductor campuses and large manufacturing projects. The company raised full-year guidance. Its shares nonetheless pulled back after the release on margin-mix and valuation concerns, which is worth stating rather than glossing.

What to Watch
The near-term markers for General Fusion are scientific and specific: progress from 0.72 keV toward the 1 keV objective, then 10 keV, and independent validation of the results reported so far. The financial marker is completing the several planned LM26 program milestones that the Company has said the capital raised at its listing is intended to fund through the end of 2028. The commercial markers are progressing the Renexia framework to definitive terms and whether the advisory committee converts into committed customers.

The broader point is the one worth holding onto. The long-standing objection to fusion has been commercial before it was scientific: not whether the reaction can be achieved, but whether a machine built around it could be manufactured, maintained and operated at a cost that produces sellable electricity. That is the question the conversation has now moved to.
The shift has come from decades of advances in plasma physics, high-performance computing, advanced manufacturing, and digital controls – to name a few.
The demand for firm, clean, around-the-clock power is now visible in contracted backlogs at companies that build and supply the grid today, and it is growing faster than the supply being added to meet it. That does not make any single fusion company a good outcome. General Fusion is pre-revenue, is targeting a first plant around 2035, and may never generate revenue at all. It does mean the question of whether fusion arrives in time has stopped being hypothetical, and that is a different conversation than the one the field has been having for the last fifty years.

Track the Signals Before the Crowd
The best positioning happens before the crowd catches on. Eagle Eye is a real-time investor signal-intelligence platform that surfaces sentiment shifts, news flow, and trending tickers as they form, so you see attention building instead of chasing it. Watch it live at eagle-eye.dev.

Article Sources:
[1] General Fusion Group Ltd. corporate disclosures and business update materials (Nasdaq listing and Spring Valley Acquisition Corp. III business combination, cash position, LM26 program and plasma heating results, Magnetized Target Fusion approach, Renexia S.p.A. framework agreement, General Atomics collaboration, Market Development Advisory Committee, first-of-a-kind plant timeline). The description of the Lawson criterion in this article reflects General Fusion's own framing of the combination of plasma conditions required to produce net fusion energy.
[2] Public disclosures and filings of the referenced companies (NRG Energy, EMCOR Group, Comfort Systems USA, Sterling Infrastructure) as cited in the body of this article.

Equity Insider | info@equity-insider.com

IMPORTANT NOTICE AND DISCLAIMER: All investments are subject to risk, which must be considered on an individual basis before making any investment decision. This paid advertisement includes a stock profile of General Fusion Group Ltd. (Nasdaq: GFUZ) (“General Fusion”). The Investment Journal is an investment newsletter being advertised herein. This paid advertisement is intended solely for information and educational purposes and is not to be construed under any circumstances as an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to purchase any securities. In an effort to enhance public awareness, General Fusion is the sole source of funds for a budget of approximately $300,000 provided to Creative Direct Marketing Group ("CDMG") to cover the costs associated with creating, printing and distributing this advertisement. The Investment Journal may receive subscription revenue in the future from new subscribers as a result of this advertisement for its newsletter. CDMG will retain any excess sums after all expenses are paid. While this advertisement is being disseminated and for a period of not less than 90 days thereafter, The Investment Journal, CDMG, and their respective officers, principals, or affiliates will not sell securities of General Fusion. If successful, this advertisement will increase investor and market awareness of General Fusion and its securities, which may result in an increased number of shareholders owning and trading the securities, increased trading volume, and possibly an increase in share price, which may be temporary. This advertisement, CDMG and The Investment Journal do not purport to provide a complete analysis of General Fusion or its financial position. They are not, and do not purport to be, broker-dealers or registered investment advisors. This advertisement is not, and should not be construed to be, personalized investment advice directed to or appropriate for any particular investor. Any investment should be made only after consulting a registered broker-dealer or registered investment advisor or, at a minimum, doing your own research if you do not utilize an investment professional to make decisions on what securities to buy and sell, and only after reviewing the financial statements and other pertinent publicly available information about General Fusion. Further, readers are specifically urged to read and carefully consider the risk factors identified and discussed in General Fusion’s Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") filings. Investing in General Fusion is speculative and carries a high degree of risk. Past performance does not guarantee future results. This advertisement is based exclusively on information generally available to the public and does not contain any material, non-public information. The information on which it is based is believed to be reliable. Nevertheless, CDMG and The Investment Journal cannot guarantee the accuracy or completeness of the information and are not responsible for any errors or omissions. This advertisement contains forward-looking statements, including statements regarding expected future growth of General Fusion and/or its industry. CDMG and The Investment Journal note that statements contained herein that look forward in time, which include everything other than historical information, involve risks and uncertainties that may affect the actual results of operations of General Fusion. The Investment Journal is the publisher’s trademark. All trademarks used in this advertisement other than The Investment Journal are the property of their respective trademark holders and no endorsement by such owners of the contents of this advertisement is made or implied. CDMG and The Investment Journal are not affiliated, connected, or associated with, and are not sponsored, approved, or originated by, the trademark holders unless otherwise stated. No claim is made to any rights in any third-party trademarks.

PUBLISHER DISCLOSURE: This article is being distributed by Equity Insider on behalf of Market Equities Limited, a company incorporated under the laws of Ireland (“Market Equities”), which wholly owns and operates Equity Insider. Market Equities has been paid a fee by Creative Direct Marketing Group ("CDMG") for General Fusion advertising and digital media services, which fee is paid to Market Equities by CDMG out of the budget referred to above and is not paid to Market Equities by General Fusion. CDMG has been retained by General Fusion, pursuant to a services agreement, to provide various marketing and advertising services for an aggregate fee, and this article was prepared and published pursuant to that services agreement. Market Equities has not been paid a fee directly by General Fusion, and Market Equities is not affiliated with, and is a separate and independent entity from, CDMG, The Investment Journal and General Fusion. Market Equities also expects to receive additional compensation in connection with an ongoing digital media campaign intended to increase the Company’s visibility. This compensation will be paid by CDMG and is included in the fee paid directly to CDMG by General Fusion.

.No further notice will be given, but let this disclaimer serve as notice that all material, including this article, has been reviewed and approved by General Fusion and CDMG.

This relationship and the expectation of future compensation constitute a conflict of interest as to our ability to remain objective in our communication regarding the profiled company. Because of this conflict, individuals are strongly encouraged not to use this article as the basis for any investment decision.

Market Equities and its owners, operators, directors, and affiliates do not own any shares of General Fusion, but reserve the right to buy and sell shares of General Fusion at any time without any further notice commencing immediately and ongoing, in the open market, through private placements, and/or through other investment vehicles. There may also be third parties who hold shares of General Fusion and may liquidate their shares, which could have a negative effect on the price of the stock.

Nothing in this publication should be considered personalized financial advice. Market Equities is not licensed under securities laws to address your particular financial situation, and no communication from Market Equities should be deemed personalized financial advice. Please consult a licensed financial advisor before making any investment decision. This publication is neither an offer nor a recommendation to buy or sell any security. Market Equities holds no investment licenses and is neither licensed nor qualified to provide investment advice. While all information is believed to be reliable, it is not guaranteed by Market Equities to be accurate. Individuals should assume that all information contained in this publication is not trustworthy unless verified by their own independent research. Because events and circumstances frequently do not occur as expected, there will likely be differences between any predictions and actual results. Investors are cautioned that they may lose all or a portion of their investment when investing in stocks.

References to NRG Energy, Inc., EMCOR Group, Inc., Comfort Systems USA, Inc. and Sterling Infrastructure, Inc. are provided solely as market and sector context. None of them is a peer, competitor, or financial comparable of General Fusion. They are large, established, revenue-generating companies operating in entirely different industries; their revenues, backlogs, remaining performance obligations, earnings, guidance and share performance are not indicative of General Fusion’s prospects, and nothing in this article implies that General Fusion will achieve comparable results. General Fusion is a pre-revenue, development-stage company. No partnership, affiliation, sponsorship, or endorsement is implied, and none of the companies named has any involvement in General Fusion, this article, or its distribution.

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements: Certain statements included in this document are not historical facts but are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the U.S. federal securities laws and "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities laws (collectively, "forward-looking statements"). All statements other than statements of historical facts contained in this advertisement are forward-looking statements. Any statements that refer to projections, forecasts, or other characterizations of future events or circumstances, including any underlying assumptions, are also forward-looking statements. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by words such as "estimate," "plan," "project," "forecast," "intend," "expect," "anticipate," "believe," "seek," "strategy," "future," "opportunity," "may," "target," "should," "will," "would," "will be," "will continue," "will likely result," "preliminary," or similar expressions that predict or indicate future events or trends or that are not statements of historical matters, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking. Forward-looking statements include, without limitation, statements regarding the outlook for General Fusion’s business, including its ability to commercialize Magnetized Target Fusion ("MTF") or any other fusion technology on its expected timeline or at all; statements regarding the current and expected results of the Lawson Machine 26 ("LM26") program; as well as any information concerning possible or assumed future results of operations or financial position of General Fusion.

These forward-looking statements are provided for illustrative purposes only and are not intended to serve as, and must not be relied on as, a guarantee, an assurance, a prediction or a definitive statement of fact or probability. Actual events and circumstances are difficult or impossible to predict and will differ from assumptions, many of which are beyond the control of General Fusion. These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks, uncertainties, or other assumptions that may cause actual results or performance to be materially different from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the risk that General Fusion is unable to maintain the listing of its securities on Nasdaq; the risk that the price of General Fusion’s securities may be volatile due to a variety of factors outside of its control, the risk that General Fusion never generates revenue; the risk that General Fusion fails to commercialize MTF on a cost-effective basis, on the expected timeline or at all; the risk that General Fusion fails to achieve the objectives of the LM26 program; the risk that additional capital needed by General Fusion may not be raised on favorable terms, or at all, including as a result of the restrictions agreed to in connection with the private placement General Fusion closed on July 10, 2026; the risk that fusion energy does not gain public acceptance; the risk that the scientific and technical assumptions upon which MTF technology is based do not prove to be correct; the risk that General Fusion’s competitors develop viable fusion technology sooner than it does; the risk of supply chain disruptions; the risk that key technical material and service inputs may not be available when required on reasonable terms or at all; the risk that General Fusion is unable to attract and retain qualified personnel with highly technical expertise; the risk that General Fusion is subject to negative publicity; the risk that General Fusion’s assessment of the total addressable market for fusion energy is incorrect; the risk of changes in the laws and regulations governing General Fusion’s research and development activities and in the regulation of fusion energy; the risk of fluctuations in currency markets; the risk that General Fusion is unable to complete and successfully integrate any future acquisitions; the risk of increased competition in the fusion industry; the risk of accidents, earthquakes, fires, floods and other natural disasters; the risk that General Fusion’s information technology fails; the risk that General Fusion’s operating expenses are materially higher than forecast; the risk that General Fusion is unable to remediate material weaknesses in its internal controls or identify additional material weaknesses in the future; the risk that General Fusion is unable to adequately protect or enforce its intellectual property rights; the risk of third-party claims that General Fusion is infringing or violating another person’s intellectual property rights; the risk that General Fusion’s intellectual property applications are not granted; the risk of a cyber event or privacy breach resulting in an interruption in operations or financial loss; the risk that the Canadian government reduces or delays funding of government programs in which General Fusion participates; the risk that future sales by existing shareholders could cause General Fusion’s stock price to decline; and the risk that General Fusion is unable to establish and maintain effective internal controls to produce accurate and timely public disclosure.

These forward-looking statements are based on certain assumptions, including that none of the risks identified above materialize; that there are no unforeseen changes to economic and market conditions, and that no significant events occur outside the ordinary course of business.

The foregoing list is not exhaustive, and there may be additional risks that are not known or are currently believed to be immaterial. You should carefully consider the foregoing factors, any other factors discussed herein and in the other filings by General Fusion with the SEC, including those described under the heading "Risk Factors." Neither General Fusion nor any other party undertakes to update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise, except as required in accordance with applicable laws.

Cautionary Note Regarding the Business Combination: General Fusion became a publicly listed company through a business combination with Spring Valley Acquisition Corp. III. Companies that become public through such transactions may be subject to risks including share price volatility, dilution, limited operating history as a public company, and the restrictions agreed to in connection with the private placement completed in July 2026. Readers are urged to review the risk factors in the Company’s filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Cautionary Note Regarding Technical Results and Forward-Looking Statements: References to plasma heating results, electron temperatures, and technical milestones are based on General Fusion’s own disclosures, including results the company has stated are submitted for peer review. Such results are preliminary in nature and do not guarantee the achievement of subsequent milestones, including the 1 keV or 10 keV heating targets or the Lawson criterion. The Renexia S.p.A. framework agreement is milestone-based and remains subject to the parties reaching definitive terms, and references to a first-of-a-kind plant around 2035 are the Company’s stated target, not a commitment. Commercialization of fusion energy remains subject to substantial scientific, engineering, regulatory, and financial risk.

This document is governed by the laws of Ireland.

Eagle Eye is an investor signal-intelligence platform affiliated with the publisher of this article, and this reference constitutes promotion of an affiliated product. Eagle Eye is not a broker-dealer, and nothing in the platform or in this article is financial, investment, tax, or legal advice. Data provided in the platform is for informational purposes only and may be delayed. Always do your own research before making any investment decision.

This release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and such forward-looking statements are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements describe future expectations, plans, results, or strategies and are generally preceded by words such as "may", "future", "plan" or "planned", "will" or "should", "expected", "anticipates", "draft", "eventually" or "projected". You are cautioned that such statements are subject to a multitude of risks and uncertainties that could cause future circumstances, events, or results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements, including the risks that actual results may differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements as a result of various factors, and other risks identified in a company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. You should consider these factors in evaluating the forward-looking statements included herein, and not place undue reliance on such statements. The forward-looking statements in this release are made as of the date hereof and Equity Insider undertakes no obligation to update such statements.