Solar power plant in Ongtustik Qazaqstan, Kazakhstan. Approximate location 42.714, 70.823.
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Zhambyl II is a 50 MW solar power plant in Ongtustik Qazaqstan, Kazakhstan. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 21,274 homes (estimated). It ranks #31 of 33 Kazakhstan power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, solar supplies about 1.6% 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 WKS0063756.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
This solar plant converts sunlight directly into electricity with photovoltaic panels. It sits in a hot-summer Mediterranean continental climate (Köppen Dsa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 42.7°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 45% 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: 77/100 — 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.
Solar PV loses ~0.35%/°C above 25°C cell temperature — roughly 0.0% at warm-season highs here (estimate).
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 #3 largest solar power plant of 5 in Kazakhstan by capacity.
Kazakhstan has 5 solar power plants in this dataset, together about 270 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 42.714, 70.823 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
