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Belmeken Hydro Power Plant

Belovo, Bulgaria

The 1638th largest power station in the world

375 MW · Capacity

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 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. It is part of the Belmeken–Sestrimo–Chaira Hydropower Cascade.

Power station data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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