Chaira Hydro Power Plant
The Chaira Pumped Storage Hydro Power Plant was built in the Rila mountain range, about 100 kilometres southeast of Bulgaria's capital city, Sofia. Part of the major Belmeken–Sestrimo–Chaira Hydropower Cascade, Chaira has generating capacity of 864 megawatts and a pumping capacity of 788 megawatts.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Edal, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Chaira Hydro Power Plant
- Type: Power station
- Description: dam in Pazardzhik Province
- Categories: pumped-storage power station and industry
- Location: Pazardzhik, Bulgaria, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
42.15991° or 42° 9′ 36″ northLongitude
23.861° or 23° 51′ 40″ eastOperator
НЕК ЕАДOpen location code
8GJ55V56+XCOpenStreetMap ID
way 1256108851Wikidata ID
Q3441810
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Ukrainian—“Chaira Hydro Power Plant” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “ПАВЕЦ „Чаира“”
- Bulgarian: “ПАВЕЦ Чаира”
- Bulgarian: “Чаира”
- French: “centrale de pompage-turbinage de Chaira”
- French: “Centrale de pompage-turbinage de Chaira”
- German: “Pumpspeicherkraftwerk Chaira”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chaira vannkraftverk”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chaira-demningen”
- Norwegian: “Chaira vannkraftverk”
- Ukrainian: “ГАЕС Чаїра”
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Highlights include Яз.Чаира and ПАВЕЦ Чаира.
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