Power Solutions

Here is how this works in practice. Our team assesses your production's load and sources the right power way for each location: super-silent power packs positioned close to set for sound-sensitive scenes, high-capacity units for large lighting packages, and V-mount, Gold-mount and block battery systems for camera and small-unit work at remote sites. Iceland's mains is 230V at 50Hz. Where a location has a clean grid connection a tie-in can be the most economical and quietest option. Where it does not, power packs carry the shoot. Battery and power packs stock comes from the skilled Reykjavik rental base.

Here is the short of it. For larger shoots we supplement power packs, distribution and battery systems from suppliers in the UK and mainland Europe under ATA carnet, since the country is outside the EU customs union. Cold drains batteries fast, so we condition and over-provision, and we plan fuel supply and resupply for multi-day operation at distant locations. Power packs, cable and connectors are weatherproofed against wind, blowing grit and glacial damp, we work with licensed Icelandic electricians, and we give on-call tracking and fuel planning so power never interrupts the schedule.

Here is the breakdown. Iceland gives an unusually clean power base alongside genuine logistical demands. The country runs on close to 100 percent renewable electricity from geothermal and hydroelectric generation, so mains where ready. This includes Reykjavik stages such as RVK Studios in Gufunes, is stable. But it is a large, sparsely populated subarctic island of around 103,000 square kilometres, and much of it is shot far from any grid: the glacier country below Vatnajoekull, the lava fields of Myvatn, the Highlands at Landmannalaugar and Thorsmoerk, reachable only in summer via F-roads needing 4x4 super-jeeps.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. Sound-sensitive exteriors near waterfalls and quiet rift valleys at Thingvellir need genuinely silenced power packs. Weather changes fast, summer runs nearly round the clock under the Midnight Sun while winter is short and cold, and fuel logistics stretch over long distances. Productions from 'Game of Thrones' to 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story' have powered shoots across these conditions, where a well-planned power solution keeps a remote unit running reliably and quietly.