Orphey Hydroelectric Power Station

The Orphey Pumpted Storage Hydro Power Plant (Bulgarian: Помпено-акумулираща водноелектрическа централа "Орфей") is an active hydro power project near Krichim in the Rhodope Mountains, southern Bulgaria. It has 4 individual Francis turbines^[1] which deliver up to 164.8 MW of power. One of the turbines can be used as a pump as well (38 MW), making this power plant a pumped storage type. The power plant uses water from the Vacha Reservoir along the homonymous river, and is part of the Dospat–Vacha Hydropower Cascade. The plant is named after Orpheus, who is said to have lived in these lands.

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

• 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

• 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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