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Landsvirkjun — power plant portfolio

Landsvirkjun operates 13 power plants across 1 country, with a combined installed capacity of 1,791 MW.

13power plants
1,791MW total capacity
1countries
t CO₂/yr (source-labelled)

Fleet by fuel

Hydro: 11 plants11HydroGeothermal: 2 plants2Geothermal

Fleet interpretation

Landsvirkjun is represented here as an asset portfolio, not just a company label. The visible fleet spans 1 country; the largest concentration is Iceland (13).

The fuel mix by asset count is hydro (11), geothermal (2). The largest listed asset is Fljótsdalsvirkjun (Kárahnjúkar ) in Iceland (690 MW), and the mean listed unit size is about 138 MW across units with capacity data.

CO₂ coverage is source-labelled: 0 plants have a reported or modelled CO₂ value in the dataset, including 0 measured records. Missing values remain blank rather than inferred as company totals.

Method: plant-level records are grouped by owner/operator label, then aggregated by country, fuel, capacity and CO₂ provenance.

All 13 plants

PlantFuelCountryMWt CO₂/yr
Fljótsdalsvirkjun (Kárahnjúkar )HydroIceland690
BúrfellHydroIceland270
HrauneyjafossHydroIceland210
BlandaHydroIceland150
SultartangiHydroIceland125
BúðarhálsHydroIceland95
VatnsfellHydroIceland90
KraflaGeothermalIceland60
ÍrafossHydroIceland48
SteingrímsstöðHydroIceland26
LjósafossvirkjunHydroIceland15
Laxárvirkjun 3HydroIceland14
BjarnarflagGeothermalIceland3

Ownership & capacity: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). CO₂ is measured for EPA/EU ETS records and modelled for Climate TRACE records.

Frequently asked questions

How many power plants does Landsvirkjun operate?

Landsvirkjun operates 13 power plants across 1 country, with about 1,791 MW of total capacity.

What is Landsvirkjun's largest power plant?

Fljótsdalsvirkjun (Kárahnjúkar ) in Iceland is its largest at about 690 MW.

What types of power plants does Landsvirkjun run?

Its fleet is mostly hydro (11), geothermal (2).

By Dmytro Aheiev, Inzonex Research · ORCID 0009-0001-5512-0291 · data sources and methodology