National Electricity company EAD

National Electricity company EAD (NEK) is a sole-owner shareholding company, 100% owned by Bulgarian Energy Holding EAD, having its seat in Sofia. The company is managed by a three-member Board of directors. NEK’s main activity is electricity trade and generation.

NEK owns and operates 30 HPPs /  hydro power plants/ and PSHPPs / pumped storage hydro power plants/ with total installed capacity 2713 MW in generating mode and 937 MW in pumping mode. The main generation of electricity is by the power plants within Belmeken- Sestrimo- Chaira, Vacha, Batak and Arda cascades. 

NEK manages and maintains 41 big dam walls, more than 500 water abstraction facilities and hundreds of kilometers non- headrace and headrace derivations. The total built-up volume of dams is 50.1% of the total volume of water storage facilities in Bulgaria.