Hydro power plant in East Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan. Approximate location 50.399, 81.069.
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Shulbinskaya HPP is a 720 MW hydro power station in East Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan. It is operated by AES. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 720,822 homes (estimated). It ranks #7 of 33 Kazakhstan power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1987, it is around 39 years old — long-established. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, hydro supplies about 8.5% of Kazakhstan's electricity; the national grid averages 805 gCO₂/kWh (14.9% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1000295.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by AES. All plants by this company →
This hydro plant converts the energy of falling or flowing water through hydro turbines. It sits in a warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 50.4°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Monthly mean temperature
Heating degree-days here run 124% above the median power plant in this dataset — a proxy for how much extra energy heated equipment must replace through its surfaces in winter.
Climate heat-demand index: 96/100 — this site sits in the top third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.
In colder climates, uninsulated hot equipment (boilers, turbines, valves, steam lines) loses proportionally more heat to ambient air — exactly the loss Inzonex modular insulation is designed to cut.
Climate normals: WorldClim 2.1 (1970–2000 monthly normals, 10 arc-min, CC BY 4.0); zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid). Degree-days & heat-demand index computed by PowerAtlas — a modelled heat-demand proxy, not a measured site figure.
The #1 largest hydro power plant of 4 in Kazakhstan by capacity.
Kazakhstan has 4 hydro power plants in this dataset, together about 2,090 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 50.399, 81.069 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
