Orphey Hydroelectric Power Station

Orphey Hydro Power Plant
Orphey Hydro Power Plant
Country	Bulgaria
Location	Krichim
Coordinates	41°56′33″N 24°27′8″E / 41.94250°N 24.45222°E
Status	Operational
Owner(s)	NEK EAD
Reservoir
Creates	Vacha Reservoir
Power Station
Installed capacity	164.8 MW

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.

References

^ NEK brochure "Hydro Power Cascades and Dams", page 27 Archived 2011-07-06 at the Wayback Machine

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[1] NEK brochure "Hydro Power Cascades and Dams", page 27 Archived 2011-07-06 at the Wayback Machine

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v t e 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

v t e Dospat–Vacha Hydropower Cascade
Power plants	Orphey HPP (164.8 MW) Devin HPP (88 MW) Tsankov Kamak HPP (86.4 MW) Krichim HPP (80 MW) Teshel HPP (60 MW) Vacha 1 and 2 HPP (21 MW)
Reservoirs	Dospat Teshel Tsankov Kamak Reservoir Vacha Krichim
Drainage basins	Dospat Vacha (Devinska reka, Gashnya)