No other country in the world produces more electricity from hydropower per capita than Iceland. The island at the junction between the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates is…

… one of the world’s absolute hotspots for hydropower. Iceland has recently acquired yet another powerful small-scale hydropower plant. Just a few weeks ago, in the south-west of the country, in the geyser region of Haukadalur, a plant started operating which had to satisfy very demanding requirements from both an ecological and a technical point of view. The power plant was fitted out by Voith Hydro Austria. The two Francis spiral turbines from Lower Austria, which were designed with a number of technical specifications, achieve a bottleneck output of 9.9 MW. In a normal year, the new Brúarvirkjun power plant supplies around 86 GWh of clean electricity which is fed via a nearby transformer station into Iceland’s 33 kV grid.