The Shulbinsk Hydro Power Plant (Шульбинская ГЭС) 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 middle reach of the
Irtysh River, 70 km up the stream from
Semipalatinsk
Semey ( kk, Семей, Semei, سەمەي; cyrl, Семей ), until 2007 known as Semipalatinsk (russian: Семипала́тинск) and in 1917–1920 as Alash-kala ( kk, Алаш-қала, ''Alaş-qala''), is a city in eastern Kazakhst ...
in
East Kazakhstan Region 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 has 6 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, which will deliver up to 702
MW of power and generates 1.66 billion
kilowatt-hours of electricity per year. It is owned and operated by
AES Corporation
The AES Corporation is an American utility and power generation company. It owns and operates power plants, which it uses to generate and sell electricity to end users and intermediaries like utilities and industrial facilities. AES is headquart ...
.
AES Shulbinsk Hydro
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See also
* List of power stations in Kazakhstan
The following page lists all power stations in Kazakhstan.
Fossil fuel
Coal
Oil
Natural Gas
Renewable
Hydroelectric
Solar
Nuclear
*Aktau (Kazakhstan State Corporation for Atomic Power and Industry)
**BN-350 : 135 MWe ...
References
Hydroelectric power stations in Kazakhstan
Dams on the Irtysh River
AES Corporation
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