A consortium formed by MHI and Balcke-Deurr of Germany and has been awarded a turnkey contract by Reykjavik Energy of Iceland for the construction of the Hellisheidi geothermal power station.
Since the construction of the Krafla power station in 1978, our company has supplied Reykjavik Energy with a total of six geothermal power stations with a total output of 180 MW. Conferment of further contracts is a result of the demonstrated reliability and safety of our prior work.

The new power station will be comprised of two 40 MW steam turbines and two generators (to be built by Mitsubishi Electric Corporation). The first turbine generator is slated to go into operation in September 2006 with the second turbine generator following in October of the same year.

Geo-thermal power generation uses wells, which are commonly referred to as “production wells” to extract geothermal fluid from reservoirs of superheated water and steam (at temperatures of over 250 °C) deep in the earth’s crust. Vapor from within the geothermal fluid is used to drive steam turbines to generate electricity. In conventional power stations steam is created by using heat from the combustion of fossil fuels, which therefore necessitates the use of a boiler. However in the case of geo-thermal power stations the earth itself performs the boiler's role. Therefore geothermal power stations do not need to burn fuels, and do not generate CO2 , resulting in a clean method of energy production which helps preserve the environment.
MHI is currently constructing geothermal power stations in other countries around the world, not only in Iceland. The cumulative power output from these power station is in excess of 2,000 MW.