The 2010 Iceland power outages was a massive, widespread power outage that occurred nationwide in Iceland, on Wednesday, September 1 to 21, 2010, at approximately 21:00 UTC. At the time, it was one of the most widespread electrical outages in Icelandic history. The three largest aluminium smelters in Iceland were hit by the outage, leaving Century Aluminum Grundartangi and Rio Tinto Alcan Straumsvík totally off-grid.[1] The third aluminium smelter, Alcoa Fjarðarál, was forced to reduce its operations to a bare minimum. Hot water became immediately scarce in some of the neighborhoods in Reykjavík, the capital, 20 days fully restored.

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  1. ↑ "Rafmagn fór af álverum" [Iceland hit by Power Outages] (in Icelandic). RUV, The Icelandic Broadcasting Service. 1 September 2010. Archived from the original on 4 September 2010. Retrieved 1 September 2010.
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