Orphey Hydro Power Plant - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Orphey Hydro Power Plant - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
The Orphey Pumpted Storage Hydro Power Plant () is an active hydro power project near Krichim in the Rhodope Mountains, southern Bulgaria. It has 4 individual Francis turbinesNEK brochure "Hydro Power Cascades and Dams", page 27 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. Read more on Wikipedia
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