Facts on Iceland
Greenbang has always wanted to go to Iceland as it’s apparently got some very cool sustainability projects.
So here’s a few random facts about it – because Greenbang wants to pass them on. (These come from the Driving Sustainability Conference, held in Iceland next week.)
- 72% of Iceland’s total energy consumption is from hydro- and geothermal sources
- Iceland has no fossil fuels as a natural resource
- Reykjavik was the site for the world’s first commercial hydrogen refuelling station, opened in 2003
- There is a growing fleet of hydrogen passenger cars as well as busses and cars running on locally produced biogas
- The import of ethanol cars and E85 fuel has begun and a Toyota Prius hybrid is being converted to a plug-in hybrid in September
- This first plug-in hybrid in the country will be able to run over 100 kilometres on electricity alone
- Icelandair head office and all Icelandair Hotel properties are run on renewable resources
- Realised it had no coal and oil so decided to concentrate on renewable energy
- Barbara Boxer, US Senator & Chairperson of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee recently visited Iceland to learn more about renewable energy