LISTS BULGARIAN POWER PLANTS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700040661-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 28, 2011
• Sequence Number: 661
• Publication Date: March 12, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL CC
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FOZEIGN pOCU ENTS OR RAD O BROADCASTS CD
COUNTRY Bulgaria
SUBJECT Economic - Power
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
WHERE
PUBLISHED Sofia; Nev York
DATE
PUBLISHED 4 Sep, Oct 1951
LANGUAGE Bulgarian
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DATE OF
INFORMATION 1951
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
LISTS BULCARLAN POWQ~ p~S
NEW PLANTS PVf INTO CPEHATION IN 1951 -- S:fis, Narodna, Mladezh, 4 Sep 51
Up to 9 September 1944 there were about 120 steam, hydroelectric, and die-
sel power plants in Bulgaria vlth a small capacity.
After ~ September 1944, the construction oi' electric power plants vas
greatly intensified. The following plants were constructed: the "Pleven"
Dieeel Electric Power Pant, the "Koynare" 11,ydroelectrlc Power Plant, the
"Kalin" Hydroelectric Power Plant, the "Falkovets" Micro Hydroelectric Power
Pleat, the "Madzhur" Micro Hydroelectric Power Plant, and the "Khubcha" Micro
Hydroelectric Power Plant. Before 1950, the construction of the "Sta11n" Steam
Heat and Electric Power Plant vas begun and additional boilers for the "Kurilo"
and the "Y. Kolarov" steam heat and electric pover plants were delivered.
During the first half of 1951, the following hydroelectric pover plants
were put into operation: "TScha," "Asenitsa," "Tuzha," "Vidima," and "Petrovo."
During the ,:ond half of 1951, additional units of the "Stalin" and "DSmitrovo"
steam heat and electric power plants began operation. The capacity oP the
Stalin" Plant is 100 million kllovatt-hours per year. The high-tension pover
lines Kurilo - Plovdiv and Kurilo - Mezhdra - Cherven Bryag -Pleven were also
completed during the second half of 1951.
Between 9 September 1944 and the middle of 1951, the country's electric
pover vas increased ?9 percent. On 9 September 1951, the "Republica" Steam
Heat and Electric Power Plant will start operating and eventually will produce
500,000 kilowatt-hours of pover.
Thy "Republika" Plant will have a generating capacity of 25,000 kilowatts
with the first unit of turbines. When the second unit is put into operation,
the plant will have a capacity of 50,000 kilowatts. The following steam heat
and electric power plants will also be completed: the "Maritsa ;" ~ov "Vulko
Chervenkov'J at Dimitrovgrad and the "Vasil Kolarov."
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The total capacity of the pover plants operating in the country in
1951 pill be increased 11~ percent, compared to 1944.
The production oP electric pover ~in 1951], compared to 1939, pill be in-
creased 505 percent, and compared to 1944, 433 percent.
BulRarski Prevled, Nev York, Oct 51
According to official Bulgarian statistical data, Mesechni Statlstiche-
skiski Izoestiya (Monthly Statistical Data), 1946, Nc 12, p 32p, in 1 ~
electric pover plants Pere in operation in Bulgaria, with the followi~ ~
pacity: for direct current 1,163 kilowatts, and for alternati ~ ca
hour~opkeletric powerove~ p~duced. Dur1~ 1939, 26 ~ current,
7.7 million kilovatt-
In 1944, 108 electric pover plants vere in operation in Bulgaria with the
following capacity: Par direct current, 1,120 kilovatts, and Por alternating
current, 162,454 kilowatt ~ilovol~-amperes. During 1944, 310.7 million
kilowatt-hours of electric pc'aer vere produced.
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