GRES-2 Power Station

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The GRES-2 Power Plant in Ekibastuz, Kazakhstan
The GRES-2 Power Plant in Ekibastuz, Kazakhstan

The GRES-2 Power Station (or Power Station Ekibastuz) is a power generating station in Ekibastuz, Kazakhstan. It is one of the largest coal-fired power stations in the world. GRES-2, built in 1987, has installed capacities of 2x500 MW and has the world's tallest flue gas stack at 419.7 metres (1,377 ft) high. The chimney is about 38 metres (125 ft) taller than the Inco Superstack. Locals refer to it as "the Cigarette Lighter".

The power station is the start of the Powerline Ekibastuz-Kokshetau and uses a transmission voltage of 1,150 kV, the highest transmission voltage in the world. The extension of this line to Elektrostal in Russia is also designed for 1,150 kV, but it currently operates at only 400 kV.

50% of GRES-2 shares are owned by Inter RAO UES, a joint subsidiary of RAO UES and Rosenergoatom, and 50% by Kazakhstan's government.

[edit] 2006 Fire

On May 30, 2006, the chimney of the GRES-2 Power Station caught fire as flames and smoke could be seen pouring out of the top of the building. There were no reports of injuries and there was no word on the cause of the blaze. Firemen at the scene said all those inside the building had been evacuated.

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Berezovskaya GRES • Bishkek TEC • Boxberg Power Station • Buschhaus Power Station • Chvaletice Power Station • Clifty Creek Power Plant • Conemaugh Generating Station • Cumberland Power Plant • Duvha Power Station • Endesa Termic • GRES-2 Power Station • Hal B. Wansley Power Plant • Harllee Branch Power Plant • Harrison Power Station Scrubber • Harrison Power Station • Hayden Smelter • HKW Chemnitz-Nord • Homer City Generating Station • Inco Superstack • Independence Power Plant • Jänschwalde Power Station • Jaworzno Power Station • Kennecott Smokestack • Kingston Fossil Plant • Kirishskaya GRES-1 • Kostromskaya GRES • Kozienice Power Station • Kyger Creek Power Plant • Lippendorf Power Station (chimney dismantled) • Maritsa Iztok-3 • Marl-Chemiepark Power Station (dismantled) • Mitchell Power Plant • Mountaineer Power Plant • Novaky Power Plant • Orot Rabin • Permskaya GRES • Phoenix Copper Smelter • Plant Bowen Coal • Plomin Power Station • Provence Power Station • Prunéřov Power Station • Reftinskaya GRES • Robert W Scherer Power Plant • Rockport Power Plant • Ryazanskaya GRES • Rybnik Power Station • SASOL Synthetic Fuel Production Plant • Scholven Power Station • Scholven Power Station • STEAG Power Plant Herne • STEAG Power Plant Walsum • Syrdarya Power Plant • Teruel Power Plant • TETs5 • Thierbach Power Station (dismantled) • Tobolsk TEC • Trbovlje Chimney • Troitskaya TEC (planned) • Tušimice Power Station • Ugljevik Power Plant • Warszawa-Kawęczyn Power Station • Zuevska TES • Ekibastuz GRES-1 • Kirishskya GRES-1 • Vuhlehirska TES •Zaporiska DRES • Myronivsky DRES • Westerholt Power Station (demolished) • W. H. Sammis Power Plant Unit 7 • White Bluff Power Plant • Widows Creek Power Plant

Coordinates: 51°53′12″N, 75°22′31″E

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