Moinak Hydro Power Plant

The Moinak Hydro Power Plant or (Moynak HPP) (Мойнақ СЭС-і, Moınaq SES-i) is a hydropower plant on the Sharyn River south of Almaty, Almaty Province, Kazakhstan ("Moinak HPP").

Moinak HPP is owned and operated by JSC Moinakskaya HPP,^[1] which is in turn owned by Samruk Energy JSC.^[2]

It was commissioned on December 9, 2011,^[3] and became fully operational in 2013.^[4] It has 2 individual turbines with a nominal output of around 150 MW which deliver up to 300 MW of power^[5] and generate 1.027 billion kilowatt-hours 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 ^[6]

Moinak HPP is financed by Kazakhstan's and China's National Development Bank