Sestrimo Hydro Power Plant

Hydroelectric power station in Bulgaria

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Thermal power station Primary fuelHydropowerPower generation Units operational3Nameplate capacity240 MW

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The Sestrimo Hydro Power Plant is an active hydro power project in the eastern Rila mountains near Sestrimo village, Bulgaria. Water is supplied by the Belmeken Dam to three turbines^[1] with a nominal output of around 80 MW which will deliver up to 240 MW of power.^[2] It is part of the Belmeken-Chaira-Sestrimo Hydropower Cascade. The same reservoir is used for pumped storage with the Chaira Hydro Power Plant.

References

^ Sestrimo 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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