Ust-Kamenogorsk Hydro Power Plant
Encyclopedia
The Ust-Kamenogorsk Hydroelectric Power Plant (also known as Oskemen Hydroelectric Power Plant; ; ) is a hydroelectric power
plant on the Irtysh River near Ust-Kamenogorsk in East Kazakhstan Province of Kazakhstan
. It has 4 individual turbine
s with a nominal output of 82.8 MW with a generating capacity of 315 MW and generates 1.58 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity per year. It is owned and operated by AES Corporation
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Hydroelectricity
Hydroelectricity is the term referring to electricity generated by hydropower; the production of electrical power through the use of the gravitational force of falling or flowing water. It is the most widely used form of renewable energy...
plant on the Irtysh River near Ust-Kamenogorsk in East Kazakhstan Province of Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the ninth largest country in the world, it is also the world's largest landlocked country; its territory of is greater than Western Europe...
. It has 4 individual turbine
Turbine
A turbine is a rotary engine that extracts energy from a fluid flow and converts it into useful work.The simplest turbines have one moving part, a rotor assembly, which is a shaft or drum with blades attached. Moving fluid acts on the blades, or the blades react to the flow, so that they move and...
s with a nominal output of 82.8 MW with a generating capacity of 315 MW and generates 1.58 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity per year. It is owned and operated by AES Corporation
AES Corporation
AES Corporation is a Fortune 500 company that generates and distributes electrical power. The company was founded on January 28, 1981, as Applied Energy Services by Roger Sant from the US Federal Energy Administration and Dennis Bakke from the Office of Management and Budget. AES Corporation is...
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