Boškov Most Hydro Power Plant

The facility will include a rock-filled embankment dam and its accumulation reservoir near the village of Tresonče, and a 71.5 MW power station located lower in the valley, near Mogorče.[2] Plans to build the Boškov Most HPP date back to 1983 (as a substantially smaller 45 MW facility) but it was postponed several times due to financial problems.[9] Boškov HPP is designed to produce peak energy which means that the water from Mala Reka river and its tributaries will be diverted into a reservoir and on demand released once a day.Aside from the fact that the entire valley will suffer from the diversion of the majority of its natural water supplies, it will also result in daily flushes, which have enormous negative impacts on biodiversity and species populations in the river sections below the HPP.It took the EBRD another year to cancel its EUR 65 million loan[11] for Boškov Most as well, stating that it fully respects Bern Convention’s recommendation and believes that the project should be suspended.
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