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Batak Pumped Storage hydroelectric plant
2nd-largest grid storage in Bulgaria of 3 · top 55% worldwide (#522 of 965)
- Owner
- Natsionalna Elektricheska Kompania (NEK)
- Status
- proposed
- Capacity
- 800 MW
- Technology
- pumped storage
- Commissioned
- 2032
- Also listed as
- A power plant — this site generates as well as stores
Comparable grid storages · Bulgaria · 3 ranked
- #1Chaira hydroelectric plant864 MW
- #2Batak Pumped Storage hydroelectric plant800 MW
- #3Dospat hydroelectric plant800 MW
Grid connection · within 50 km
- Nearest substation
- ПС ПАВЕЦ Чаира
- Its voltage
- 400 kV
- Distance
- 35 km
- Strongest line nearby
- 400 kV
- Substations in range
- 2
Mapped grid infrastructure from OpenStreetMap, whose coverage is excellent in some regions and sparse in others. Nothing shown here means nothing is mappednearby — not that the site is unconnected. Lines are matched on a segment’s midpoint, so a corridor passing directly overhead can be missed; this under-reports rather than invents.
Co-located infrastructure · within 25 km
- Batak Pumped Storage hydroelectric plant0 m · Power Plant · 800 MW · hydro
- Peshtera hydroelectric plant9.9 km · Power Plant · 135 MW · hydro
- Orfeus hydroelectric plant22 km · Power Plant · 160 MW · hydro
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SOURCE: Global Energy Monitor · Global Integrated Power, March 2026 (CC BY 4.0)