As the global energy transition accelerates, investment in hydropower refurbishment and expansion is gaining momentum ...

A volcano began erupting in southwest Iceland on Tuesday, just hours after authorities evacuated a nearby community and the Blue Lagoon spa, one of Iceland's biggest tourist attractions.

Hydro stations are “literally producing gold for us,” said Finnbogason during a tour of the Írafoss Power Station, which is about 30 miles from Iceland’s capital Reykjavík.

It is particularly critical of the design, development and application of intelligent sensors in hydropower stations under the trend of deep intellectualization and digitalization of hydropower ...

Iceland aims to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2040 and is well on its way to doing so. By April 2024, 100 percent of homes across the country were heated using renewable energy, a feat ...

Iceland uses remarkably few fossil fuels to power its economy and heat its homes. Instead, 85 percent of the country’s energy comes from domestically produced renewables, primarily geothermal ...

View of the Svartsengi geothermal power station, near Grindavík, on the Reykjanes Peninsula, southwestern Iceland on July 5, 2014. Magma continues to accumulate beneath the installation ...

The trial, running from April until March 2024, sees IIJ install an MDC at Landsvirkjun's Írafoss hydropower station in Sogið in southern Iceland.

Iceland is already home to the world’s first large scale carbon dioxide removal plant. Called Orca, it is around 50km outside of Reykjavík and began pulling carbon from the air in 2021.

Firestone: Iceland relies on hydropower and geothermal power for 100% of its electricity and geothermal for about 90% of its building heat. Most (~80%) of the electricity is consumed by the industrial ...