2022 ARENA Cohort Reconvenes in Iceland
The 11 members of the 2022 Arctic Remote Energy Networks Academy will reconvene next
week in Iceland - the geothermal capital of the world - for the second of three program
on-sites. The cohort first met in Fairbanks and Kotzebue in July this year and will
gather a third and final time in the Yukon Territory in late January 2023.
The Iceland program agenda includes both technical and historical overviews of the
country’s geothermal resources and infrastructure as well as related energy policy
and regulatory structures. Field trips include tours of the Haustak geothermal-powered
fish drying factory, commercial geothermal-powered greenhouses and, of course, geothermal
swims in Laugardalur and the famous Blue Lagoon.
Due to the country’s outstanding natural geothermal resource, the Iceland program
offers unique insights into industrial uses of waste heat as well as how national
energy policy can drive innovation. Learn more at http://arena.alaska.edu.
The Arctic Remote Energy Networks Academy 2022 cohort visited Kotzebue in July,2022. In October, 2022 they will convene in Reykjavik, Iceland. Photo by Amanda Byrd.