2010 Iceland power outages

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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.{{Citation needed|date=September 2010}} The three largest aluminium smelters in Iceland were hit by the outage, leaving Century Aluminum Grundartangi and Rio Tinto Alcan Straumsvík totally off-grid.{{cite web

| url = http://www.ruv.is/frett/rafmagn-for-af-alverum

| title = Rafmagn fór af álverum

| trans-title = Iceland hit by Power Outages

| date = 2010-09-01

| publisher = RUV, The Icelandic Broadcasting Service

| accessdate = 2010-09-01

| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20100904145538/http://www.ruv.is/frett/rafmagn-for-af-alverum| archivedate= 4 September 2010 | url-status= live|lang=is}} 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.