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The GRES-2 Power Station (or Power Station Ekibastuz) is a coal-fueled power generating station in Ekibastuz,
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. It is located close to Solnechny and to Shandaksor. The ashes of the station are dumped into Karasor, a nearby lake.
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Description

GRES-2, commissioned in 1987, has an installed capacity of 1,000
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and has the world's tallest flue-gas stack at tall. The reinforced concrete chimney is about taller than the
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, in Sudbury,
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. It is the tallest chimney ever built. The power station is the start of the Powerline Ekibastuz–Kokshetau and uses a transmission voltage of 1,150 kVAC, the highest transmission voltage in the world. The extension of the line to
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, is also designed for 1,150 kV, but it currently operates at only 500 kV. About three fourths of the energy produced by GRES-2 was exported to Russia. Fifty percent of GRES-2 shares are owned by
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, and fifty percent by Kazakhstan's
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Individual units

The planned capacity of 4,000
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is to be provided by eight equal units, 500 MWe each. * Unit 1 was launched into service in December 1990. * Unit 2 was launched into service in December 1993. * Construction of Unit 3 was started in 1990 but later stopped.


See also

* Ekibastuz GRES-1 * List of chimneys *
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References


External links

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Smoke-stack diagrams

GRES-2 official website
* {{Authority control Energy infrastructure completed in 1987 Towers completed in 1987 Power stations built in the Soviet Union Chimneys in Kazakhstan Coal-fired power stations in Kazakhstan Electric power companies of Kazakhstan Inter RAO 1987 establishments in the Soviet Union Ekibastuz City Administration