Energy Transition

This week, a cruise ship was connected to electricity at Miðbakki in the Reykjavík harbor, reducing air and noise pollution in the city center. Verkís oversaw the design, equipment procurement, supervision, and testing for this project. The Norwegian cruise ship Fridtjof Nansen was the first vessel to connect to electricity in Reykjavík harbor. The connection […]

–PRESS RELEASE– Transport and trade on the ocean must be made much greener. This is the goal of the new €17 million European GAMMA project, where companies and researchers will develop and convert a bulk carrier to sail on climate-neutral fuels and green power. 60,000 tonnes dead weight. That is how much cargo the bulk […]

Verkís has been awarded a maximum grant of 15 million ISK by the Icelandic Climate Fund for a project pertaining to energy exchange in ship transport using electric fuel. The grant will serve as co-financing for the innovation project GAMMA, a large European project worth 2.5 billion ISK, which is related to the topic of […]

Egill Viðarsson, managing director of Verkís, and Þorleikur Jóhannesson, mechanical engineer at Verkís Energy and Industry Division, participated in two conferences in Europe this week. One in Germany and one in Poland. The first conference was held in Germany last Monday, June 12th, and was entitled Germany – Iceland Clean Energy Summit, and the second […]

Verkís participated in a trip to India last 1.-5. March. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs organized the trip together with the Icelandic Embassy in Delhi. Haukur Þór Haraldsson, Business development manager, participated in the trip on behalf of Verkís and Daði Þorbjörnsson on behalf of ÍSOR. In addition to attending meetings with the energy authorities […]

At the beginning of February, the founding meeting of the energy transition project WHISPER took place, where all the members of the project came together for the first time in a three-day work meeting at the Verkís headquarters in Ofanleiti, Reykjavík to plan the work of the up-coming semesters, and the project is now considered […]

Verkís coordinates a funded innovations project in energy transition. WHISPER could reduce emissions in the shipping industry by 15-30%. An energy transition project, WHISPER, has been granted 9,2 million EUR in funding from Horizon Europe for a 4-year innovation project. The goal of the project is to develop a solution that can significantly reduce emissions […]

Verkís together with ÍSOR, Intellecon, consultants from the Comoros and BBA // Fjelco handles the preparation and draft regulations on the utilization of solar-, wind-, and hydropower energy on the Comoros Islands. The Comoros is an island nation in the Indian Ocean, where the government aims to make greater use of renewable energy sources instead […]