Pleven Electrification Region

The Pleven Electrification Region was developed much later, during the 1940’s when the North Bulgaria Electrification Directorate was established in 1940 and transformed into General Directorate of Electrification in Bulgaria on May 8th 1944.

In Pleven, the administrative center of the region, the issue of electric lighting was raised in 1906, then in 1907 and again in 1911 (a project was drawn up), however, electrification there was begun in 1919. At that time a dynamo installed in a mill was also used for supplying electricity lighting to the neighboring houses.

Large-scale electrification in Pleven began in 1927 when the Pleven DPP was constructed and commissioned with two diesel-engine units of 200 hp each. The Plant was extended by 460 hp in 1930 and 1200 hp in 1949. It operated at 6 kV. The same was the town distribution voltage and that of the 6/0.4 kV distribution transformers.

Later on (1950-1951) near the Pleven-West railway plant, a 110/20 kV regional substation was built in order to pro-vide connection to the regional electrification system of the country. That set the beginning of an orderly devel-opment of the Pleven Electrification Region.

Zlatna Panega

It is worth noting that near Loukovit, on the Zlatna Panega river, the first dam in Bulgaria was built. It was given the name of the river and had 1.2 million m3 storage capacity and a power plant on it, with two units of 480 kW total capacity, commissioned in 1938.