Bountiful geothermal resources and 24-hour daylight mean visitors to Iceland’s Secret Solstice festival never hear the drone of diesel generators
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The sun never sets over the three-day music festival, which is held in mid June outside the capital Reykjavik. Because of its close proximity to the Arctic Circle the sun only bounces off the horizon at 3.30am and it never gets dark.
Fred Olafsson, Secret Solstice’s operations director and founder reckons that the 24-hour sunlight helps to make Secret Solstice one of the greenest music festivals in the world because it has minimal lighting needs. Any power it does use comes from Iceland’s vast geothermal energy and hydropower reserves.
