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Iceland’s electrical potentials

Below the surface Iceland is a country with enormous resources of heat.

Through modern advances in technology this heat can be transformed into electrical power. Continuous precipitation similarly creates significant opportunities to produce electricity based on hydro-power. Iceland, however, has relatively little industrial capacity to use more electricity. As such then three choices seem to be available. More energy-consuming industries should be constructed in Iceland; cables should be laid on the sea-bed to facilitate electricity for export; or, alternatively, the resources should be left untapped. On the following pages we will take a closer look at the potentials involved.