Żar is a mountain in the mountain range of

Little Beskids The Little Beskids () is one of the Beskids mountain ranges in the Western Beskids ranges of the Outer Western Carpathians in southeastern Poland. Within the range is the protected area known as Little Beskids Landscape Park. Its highest mount ...

in southern Poland, 761 m above the sea level. Below the mountain is an artificial lake (the Międzybrodzkie lake) that was created by damming the

Soła river The Soła () is a river in southern Poland, a right tributary of the Vistula. Soła originates in the Western Beskids mountain range near the border with Slovakia. It is made up of the confluence of several small creeks at the village of Rajcza. ...

. The elevation of the lake is above sea level.

Zar power plant

pumped-storage hydroelectricity Pumped-storage hydroelectricity (PSH), or pumped hydroelectric energy storage (PHES), is a type of hydroelectric energy storage used by electric power systems for load balancing. The method stores energy in the form of gravitational potential ...

power plant is located on the top of this mountain. The mountaintop reservoir is long, up to wide, and deep. It can contain of water. The elevation of the reservoir is about above sea level. The power plant was completed in 1979. The pumping time is about 5.5 hours, the power-generation time is about 4 h. The efficiency of the pumping-generation cycle is about 75%. The plant is opened to visitors.

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Mountains of Poland Żywiec County {{Poland-geo-stub