The dam supplies water to the Ciunget power plant via an 800-metre drop penstock.

All the used water is recollected via an underground piping system and flows to the Malaia dam where is the second power plant.

Bradisor power plant is situated under a mountain in order to make the fall of water greater, thus more electricity.

The project was started in 1965, being fully finished only in 1982 and it was made up by the construction of a rockfill with a clay core dam 140 m high and an underground power plant equipped with three hydrounits, having an installed capacity of 510 MW.

The Pelton type turbines operate under a net head of about 800 m. A 220 kV outdoor substation connects the plant to the Romanian electric grid.