The Moinak Hydro Power Plant or (Moynak HPP) (Мойнақ СЭС-і, ''Moınaq SES-i'') is a

hydropower Hydropower (from Ancient Greek -, "water"), also known as water power or water energy, is the use of falling or fast-running water to Electricity generation, produce electricity or to power machines. This is achieved by energy transformation, ...

plant on the Sharyn River south of

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("Moinak HPP"). Moinak HPP is owned and operated by JSC Moinakskaya HPP, which is in turn owned by Samruk Energy JSC. It was commissioned on December 9, 2011, and became fully operational in 2013. It has 2 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 can be used for generating electrical ...

s with a nominal output of around 150 MW which deliver up to 300 MW of power and generate 1.027 billion

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s of electricity per year. The main purpose of Moinak HPP is to function as a power source to cover peak load demands in the south Kazakhstan region. * Installed capacity – 2X150 MW * Annual average output – 1027 mln.kWh * Parameters of Bestubinsk water reservoir * FSL – 1770 m * DSL– 1736 m * Full reservoir capacity at FSL: 238 mln. m3 * Useful reservoir capacity– 198 mln. m3 * Downstream elevation – 1242, 5m * Estimate discharge – 74, 0 m3/sec * Calculated head – 471, 4 m Moinak HPP is financed by Kazakhstan's and China's National Development Bank

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* https://web.archive.org/web/20110707023313/http://eip.cwe.cn/show.aspx?id=93&cid=15 Hydroelectric power stations in Kazakhstan {{hydroelectric-power-plant-stub