Bulgaria plans for electricity storage beyond the end-of-life of battery plants

Tsachev commented that four projects are currently being developed for the construction of new Pumped Storage Hydro Power Plants (PSHPP) that will store over 50 000-60 000 MWh of electricity...

Two PSHPPs are already being considered at the Dospat dam. The others are on Batak and Vucha dams. Each of them is planned to have a capacity of 800MW, and in the course of the analyses it is possible to increase the capacity for some of them.

The aim is to have the pumped storage hydropower plants ready in 7-10 years to replace the battery storage plants currently under construction, which are then expected to be decommissioned. Work is already underway with Bulgarian Energy Holding, the National Electricity Company and the environment ministry to assess the environmental impact of these new projects, Tsachev said.