The Moinak Hydro Power Plant (Мойнақ СЭС-і, ''Moınaq SES-i'') is a
hydro power
Hydropower (from el, ὕδωρ, "water"), also known as water power, is the use of falling or fast-running water to produce electricity or to power machines. This is achieved by converting the gravitational potential or kinetic energy of a w ...
plant on the
Sharyn River
The Charyn ( kk, Шарын, ''Şaryn'') is a river in the Almaty Province of Kazakhstan. It flows through the Charyn National Park and merges into the Ili River, which is considered to be the largest artery of Lake Balkhash. The Charyn is long, ...
south of
Almaty 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 the ...
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 ...
. 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 by a turbine can be used for generating ...
s 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-hours 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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