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Sestrimo Hydro Power Plant

Sestrimo, Bulgaria

The 1951st largest power station in the world

240 MW · Capacity

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 with a nominal output of around 80 MW which will deliver up to 240 MW of power. It is part of the Belmeken–Sestrimo–Chaira Hydropower Cascade. The same reservoir is used for pumped storage with the Chaira Hydro Power Plant.

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

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