The Kapshagay Hydroelectric Power Plant ( kk, Қапшағай су электр станциясы, ''Qapshaǵaı sý elektr stantsııasy''; russian: Капшагайская ГЭС, earlier Капчагайская ГЭС) is a
hydroelectricity power plant on the
Ili River
The Ili ( ug, ئىلى دەرياسى, Ili deryasi, Ili dəryasi, 6=Или Дәряси; kk, Ile, ; russian: Или; zh, c=伊犁河, p=Yīlí Hé, dng, Йили хә, Xiao'erjing: اِلِ حْ; mn, Ил, literally "Bareness") is a river si ...
in
Almaty Province
Almaty Region ( kk, Алматы облысы, Almaty oblysy; russian: Алматинская область, Almatinskaya oblast) is a region in Kazakhstan, located in the southeastern part of the country. Its capital, from 1997 to 2022 was th ...
of
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbeki ...
. Constructed between 1965 and 1970, it has four individual
turbine
A turbine ( or ) (from the Greek , ''tyrbē'', or Latin ''turbo'', meaning vortex) is a rotary mechanical device that extracts energy from a fluid flow and converts it into useful work. The work produced by a turbine can be used for generating ...
s with a nominal output of around 91
MW which will deliver up to 364 MW of power and generates 972 million
kilowatt-hour
A kilowatt-hour ( unit symbol: kW⋅h or kW h; commonly written as kWh) is a unit of energy: one kilowatt of power for one hour. In terms of SI derived units with special names, it equals 3.6 megajoules (MJ). Kilowatt-hours are a common b ...
s of electricity per year.
It is operated by Almaty Power Stations,
and fed by
Kapchagay Reservoir
Kapchagay Reservoir, also spelled Qapshaghay Bogeni Reservoir and sometimes referred to as Lake Kapchagay, is a major reservoir in Almaty Region in southeastern Kazakhstan, approximately 80 kilometres north of Almaty. The 140 kilometre long lake ...
(resulting from the construction of
Kapchagay Dam
The Kapshagay Hydroelectric Power Plant ( kk, Қапшағай су электр станциясы, ''Qapshaǵaı sý elektr stantsııasy''; russian: Капшагайская ГЭС, earlier Капчагайская ГЭС) is a hydroelectricit ...
).
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Hydroelectric power stations in Kazakhstan
Hydroelectric power stations built in the Soviet Union
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