Organizational resources
The Lyngen alps that run through the middle of the peninsula have a major influence on how the area is organized. Roads, electrical power distribution lines and the bulk of the peninsula’s population all follow the coast.
Infrastructure
Roads
Being a peninsula the only way to reach Lyngen without traveling by sea is by coming from the south by road 868. Lyngen can be accessed from the west from the region's largest city of Tromsö by way of road 91. A ferry must be taken from Breivikeidet across Ullsfjord to Svensby. From european highway 6 a ferry can be taken from Olderdalen across the Lyngen fjord to the municipalities largest city, Lyngseidet.
Electricity
The Rottenvik hydroelectric power plant, located just north of Lyngseidet, is the only commercial scale electricity generating facility on the Lyngen peninsula. Rottenvik has an install capacity of 1.1MW and in 2004 supplied around 8.3 Gwh of electricity which for that year was comparable to roughly 15% of the total electricity demand of Lyngen municipality. Rottenvik is owned and operated by the regional power generation company Troms Kraft. The electricity generated is delivered by the state owned electricity grid operator Statnett. All electrical power power is supplied to the national network and then sold on Nordpool, a collective energy market between Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland. Most of the electricity that is supplied throughout the peninsula is distributed by 22kV electrical power lines.
- Generation and distribution
Mapping of the Rottenvik hyrdroelectric power plant north of the FabLab.
Mapping of the nearest electrical power lines.
Planning
Local planning and permitting requires a special permit to be filed for structures that are over 12 meters high.
