Moinak Hydro Power Plant


The Moinak Hydro Power Plant is a hydro power plant on the Sharyn River south of Almaty 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 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.