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Bukhtarma Hydroelectric Power Plant

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 18, 2025
Entity authorityQ1046946 ↗
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The Bukhtarma Hydroelectric Power Plant is a hydroelectric power plant on the Irtysh River 5 kilometres (3 mi) upstream of Serebryansk, East Kazakhstan. The plant has 9 individual turbines with a total generating capacity of 675 megawatts and generates 2.77 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity per year. The plant is operated by Kazzinc under a long-term concession. It is integrated into Kazakhstan's national electricity system and is used as a peak producer to regulate supply.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bukhtarma Hydroelectric Power Plant” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.