The Moinak Hydro Power Plant (Мойнақ СЭС-і, ''Moınaq SES-i'') is a
hydro power plant on the
Sharyn River south of
Almaty
Almaty (; kk, Алматы; ), formerly known as Alma-Ata ( kk, Алма-Ата), is the List of most populous cities in Kazakhstan, largest city in Kazakhstan, with a population of about 2 million. It was the capital of Kazakhstan from 1929 to ...
in
Almaty Province of
Kazakhstan. It was commissioned on December 9, 2011, and became fully operational in 2013.
It has 2 individual
turbines with a nominal output of around 150
MW which deliver up to 300 MW of power
Renewable Energy Developments in Kazakhstan
/ref> and generate 1.027 billion 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 bil ...
s of electricity per year. It is funded by Kazakhstan's and China's National Development Bank and is currently worth around US$300 million.
References
External links
* https://web.archive.org/web/20110707023313/http://eip.cwe.cn/show.aspx?id=93&cid=15
Hydroelectric power stations in Kazakhstan
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