Installed capacity — Bulgaria
What Bulgaria could produce with everything running at once: installed capacity by source, as reported for 2021, next to how much has actually run.
- Lignite 31.7%
- Nuclear 15.4%
- Hydro reservoir 13.9%
- Natural gas 9.7%
- Solar 9.6%
- Pumped-storage hydro 6.7%
- Onshore wind 5.4%
- Run-of-river hydro 4.2%
- Hard coal 2.7%
- Biomass 0.6%
- Waste 0.0%
| Source | Capacity (MW) | Of total | Against 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lignite | 31.7% | 0 | |
| Nuclear | 15.4% | 0 | |
| Hydro reservoir | 13.9% | 0 | |
| Natural gas | 9.7% | +34 | |
| Solar | 9.6% | +162 | |
| Pumped-storage hydro | 6.7% | 0 | |
| Onshore wind | 5.4% | +5 | |
| Run-of-river hydro | 4.2% | +2 | |
| Hard coal | 2.7% | 0 | |
| Biomass | 0.6% | +1 | |
| Waste | 0.0% | 0 |
How much ran at once
The highest output delivered at a single moment over the past twelve months, by source group, next to the installed capacity.
Of 12,986 MW installed, the most that ever ran at one moment was 7,713 MW — 59% of the fleet, on 20/01/2026, 10:00:00.
- Coal 2,615/ 4,475 MW 58%
- Hydro 1,880/ 3,213 MW 59%
- Nuclear 1,960/ 2,000 MW 98%
- Gas 341/ 1,266 MW 27%
- Solar 4,471/ 1,246 MW 359%
- Wind 589/ 705 MW 84%
- Biomass 24/ 75 MW 32%
- Other 14/ 6 MW 237%
The peak is read from our own generation archive, not estimated: it is a lower bound on what the fleet can do. A small ratio means the group's sources never all ran together — reservoir hydro starts at peak demand, thermal plants sit idle when they are not called. A ratio above one hundred means the declared capacity has fallen behind: the figure is declared at the start of the year while new units come online during it. Groups are compared here rather than individual source types: the same source can report capacity under lignite and generation under coal, and at group level the two meet.
How it changed, year by year
Total installed capacity, from 2015 to 2021.
- 2021 12,986MW +204
- 2020 12,782MW +25
- 2019 12,757MW +255
- 2018 12,502MW +429
- 2017 12,073MW −256
- 2016 12,329MW +1,044
- 2015 11,285MW —
The figures come from the ENTSO-E Transparency Platform, installed generation capacity aggregated by production type. The year is the one the transmission operator reports for, not the year the figure was published.
Two things are not here: the number of installations per source, and batteries as a source of their own. The aggregated report does not carry them, and batteries fall under “other”. They appear the day the source publishes them separately.