Substation Pamporovo – the Most Modern in Bulgaria
Monday, 19th March, 2007The Bulgarian Minister of the Economy Rumen Ovcharov will open the new Pamporovo substation on March 21, reported the mayor of the famous Bulgarian winter resort Dora Yankova. The state of the art substation will be the most modern in Bulgaria. It will guarantee the electricity supply of the ‘Perelik’ project and of Smolian, Pamporovo, Smolianski Lakes and the whole Southern Rhodopes region. Swiss company will enact the project in the ‘Kriva reka’ area.
The ‘Perelik’ project stipulates the construction of an airport close to Smolyan and a modern road from Plovdiv, the second largest city in Bulgaria.
The contractor expects the investment to be approx. 230 million Euro during the first stage of the project (covering the plateaus around the peak) and reach approx. 600 million Euro when the project reaches the lower parts of the mountain and the nearby villages.
The project will cover 2193 hectares of land and will be set from 1500 m – 2130 m above sea level in the Perelik Mountain above the town of Smolyan. It will cover the high plateaus around the Perelik and Kozuyatak peaks where there snow cover last 6 months out of the year. The project is designed in such a way as to include the nearby villages of Mugla, Gela, Stoykite and Shiroka Luka, thus increasing the number of accommodation facilities and the number of the local people engaged in the tourism sphere. (News.bg)
