Kárahnjúkar Dam
Kárahnjúkar Hydropower Plant - Wikipedia
The Kárahnjúkar Dam (Icelandic: Kárahnjúkastífla [ˈkʰauːraˌn̥juːkaˌstipla]) is the centrepiece of the five dams and the largest of its type in Europe, standing ...
Kárahnjúkar Hydropower Plant - Visitegilsstadir
The largest dam is also the largest of its kind in Europe, 193 m high and 730 m long and comprised of 8.5 million cubic meters of material. Kárahnjúkar Dam and ...
Kárahnjúkar | Visit Austurland
It is fun to see the Kárahnjúkar Dam itself and the Hálslón Reservoir. When Hálslón fills up and overflows, the Hverfandi waterfall appears at the western end ...
Hydropower in Iceland: A Review of the Kárahnjúkar Project
On Jökulsá Fjótsdal, the Kelduá Dam forms the 60 million m3 Kelduárlón Reservoir which stands 26 m high and 1,650 m long. The Ufsarlon Dam downstream measures ...
Karahnjukar hydroelectric plant | Webuild Group
The dam is 193 m high, with a crest length of approximately 730 m and a rockfill volume of 8.9 million m³. The river diversion works comprise two tunnels with ...
Karahnjukar - The National Power Company of Iceland
The larger river, providing about 2/3 of the flow to the plant, is dammed at the Karahnjukar Mountain with the 198m high Karahnjukar concrete face rock fill dam ...
Karahnjukar Hydroelectric Project - Stantec
The highest concrete-faced rock-fill dam in Europe, and one of the highest in the world.
Karahnjukar Hydroelectric Project, Iceland - Webuild Project
... ) built the concrete-faced rockfill dam. At 193 metres, it is the tallest in the Nordic region and the first of its kind in Europe.
Kárahnjúkavirkjun Travel Guide - Guide to Iceland
The Karahnjukar plant takes its energy from the dam at Jokulsa a Dal/Bru glacier river and Jokulsa in Fljotsdalur with five dams altogether and three reservoirs ...
Karahnjukar dam and power plant, Icelandic Highlands
The largest environmental movement on Iceland during the 1990s was about finding alternatives against a plan by the government to build a huge hydropower ...
Case study: Kárahnjúkar in Iceland - Arctic Portal
The Kárahnjúkar Hydroelectric Project in East-Iceland was concluded in the fall 2007 ... Kárahnjúka dam is a concrete faced rockfill dam, 700 m long and 198 m ...
Icelanders protest Karahnjukar Hydropower Project, 2000-2006
Thousands of environmental activists gathered in protest camps on or near the sites of the Karahnjukar dam and reservoir. Small groups of protesters entered ...
Kárahnjúkavirkjun - Iceland's largest hydropower plant 4k - YouTube
Kárahnjúkar Hydropower Plant, officially called Fljótsdalur Power ... Kárahnjύkar Dam, East Iceland. Travels in a VW Camper•1K views · 10 ...
Fljótsdalur Power Station - Landsvirkjun.com
Kárahnjúkar Dam is the tallest concrete-faced rockfill dam in Europe and among the largest of its kind in the world. The River Jökulsá á Dal is dammed at Fremri ...
Kárahnjúkar dam, Iceland - Ej Atlas
Kárahnjúkar dam, Iceland ... This very conflictive hydroelectric dam is part of a complex of dams, it has an installed power of 690 MW and is meant to produce ...
The Kárahnjúkar Dam (Kárahnjúkastífla) is the centrepiece of the five dams and the largest of its type in Europe, standing 193 metres (633 ft) tall with a ...
WWF urges Iceland to establish protected areas in wake ... - Panda.org
... Kárahnjúkar dam project. WWF is urging the Icelandic government to designate a new national park and 2 Ramsar sites, wetlands of international importance ...
Time Has Told: The Kárahnjúkar Dams Disastrous Economical and ...
Time Has Told: The Kárahnjúkar Dams Disastrous Economical and Environmental Impacts ... The profitability of Landsvirkjun, Iceland's national energy company, is ...
The dam is built at the upstream end of the Hafrahvammar canyon with up to 90 m high vertical sidewalls within the dam area. The central portion ...
Kárahnjúkar Dam - video Dailymotion
Kárahnjúkar Hydropower Plant (Kárahnjúkavirkjun), officially called Fljótsdalur Power Station (Fljótsdalsstöð) is a hydroelectric power ...
Kárahnjúkar Hydropower Plant
Kárahnjúkar Hydropower Plant, officially called Fljótsdalur Power Station is a hydroelectric power plant in Fljótsdalshérað municipality in eastern Iceland, designed to produce 4,600 gigawatt-hours annually for Alcoa's Fjarðaál aluminum smelter 75 kilometres to the east in Reyðarfjörður.
Heima
2007 filmHeima is a documentary film and double DVD set about the tour around Iceland in the summer of 2006 of the band Sigur Rós. During the tour the band played two big open-air concerts at Miklatún - Reykjavík and Ásbyrgi, as well as small scale concerts at Ólafsvík, Ísafjörður, Djúpavík, Háls, Öxnadalur and Seyðisfjörður.
Hálslón Reservoir
Reservoir in IcelandThe Hálslón Reservoir is a storage reservoir in Eastern Iceland on the Jökulsá á Dal River. The reservoir stores water for use in hydroelectricity production with the Kárahnjúkar Hydropower Plant.
Electricity sector in Iceland
The electricity sector in Iceland is 99.98% reliant on renewable energy: hydro power, geothermal energy and wind energy. Iceland's consumption of electricity per capita was seven times higher than EU 15 average in 2008.