Belmeken Hydro Power Plant

Hydroelectric power plant in Bulgaria

Dam in Belmeken

42°11′58″N 23°51′30″E / 42.19944°N 23.85833°E / 42.19944; 23.85833StatusOperationalOwner(s)NEK EADPower StationPumps2Installed capacity375 MW (503,000 hp)

The Belmeken Hydro Power Plant is an active pumped storage hydro power project in the eastern Rila mountains, Bulgaria. It receives its water from the Belmeken Reservoir and has 5 individual turbines^[1] with a nominal output of around 75 megawatts (101,000 hp) which can deliver up to 375 megawatts (503,000 hp) of power, as well as 2 pumps with an installed capacity of 104 MW.^[2] It is part of the Belmeken-Chaira-Sestrimo Hydropower Cascade.

References

^ Belmeken Hydro Power Plant
^ Chaira Pumped Storage Hydro Power Plant and Belmeken-Sestrimo Hydro Power Cascade Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine

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Power plants in Bulgaria with more than 100 MW installed capacity

Nuclear power plants

Kozloduy - 3,760 MW
Belene - 2,000 MW

Thermal power plants

Maritsa Iztok 2 - 1,470 MW
Varna - 1,260 MW
Maritsa Iztok 3 - 900 MW
Bobov Dol - 630 MW
Ruse Iztok - 600 MW
Maritsa Iztok 1 - 500 MW
Maritsa 3 - 240 MW
Republika - 180 MW
Sofia - 130 MW
Sofia Iztok - 100 MW

Hydro power plants

Belmeken–Sestrimo–Chaira Cascade - 1,575 MW (Chaira - 840 MW, Belmeken - 375 MW, Sestrimo - 240 MW, Momina Klisura - 120 MW)
Dospat–Vacha Cascade - 500 MW (Orphey - 165 MW, Devin - 88 MW, Tsankov Kamak - 86 MW, Krichim - 80 MW, Teshel - 60 MW)
Batak Cascade - 254 MW (Peshtera - 136 MW, Aleko - 71 MW, Batak - 47 MW)
Kardzhali - 170 MW
Gorna Arda - 160 MW
Ivailovgrad - 110 MW

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