Kárahnjúkar Hydropower Plant, officially called Fljótsdalur Power Station (: Fljótsdalsstöð ) is a power plant in municipality in eastern, designed to produce 4,600 gigawatt-hours (17,000 TJ) annually for 's Fjarðaál 75 kilometres (47 mi) to the east in . With the installed capacity of 6. . fulfills most of Iceland's remaining energy needs, the cost of which has caused the country to focus on domestic renewable energy. Professor Bragi Árnason first proposed the idea of using source in Iceland during the 1970s when the occurred. The idea was considered untenable, but in 1999 was established to govern the tra.
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