Sogrinsk power station

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Sogrinsk power station (ТОО «Согринская ТЭЦ») is an operating power station of at least 50-megawatts (MW) in Oskemen (Ust-Kamenogorsk), East Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan.

Location

Table 1: Project-level location details

Plant name Location Coordinates (WGS 84)
Sogrinsk power station Oskemen (Ust-Kamenogorsk), East Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan 50.029566, 82.769842 (exact)

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Unit-level coordinates (WGS 84):

  • Unit 1: 50.029566, 82.769842

Project Details

Table 2: Unit-level details

Unit name Status Fuel(s) Capacity (MW) Technology Start year Retired year
Unit 1 operating coal - lignite 50 subcritical 2012

Table 3: Unit-level ownership and operator details

Unit name Owner
Unit 1 Sogrinskaya TETS LLP [100.0%]

Project-level captive use details

  • Captive industry use (heat or power): agriculture, other metals & mining
  • Captive industry: Heat

Project-level coal details

  • Coal source(s): Maykubenskoye (Майкубенское месторождение бурого угля) and Karazhyra coal mine

Background

The plant is owned by TOO Sogrinskaya TETS. It used to be owned by Kazakhstan Utility Systems that acquired Sogrinsk power station and Ust-Kamenogorsk TETS power station power station from AES in April 2017.[1] However, already in 2018 the group sold the plant to Long Life Energy FZE for USD 6.8 million,[2] which in turn was owned by Long Life Energy FZE registered in UAE.[3][2] The company was allegedly associated with Kayrat Satybaldy - a nephew of Nursultan Nazarbaev.[4] It appears that later in 2018 the plant was sold again to Sogra Energy Gmbh - a company registered in Austria.[5][6][7]

The power station provides heat and hot water to residential customers in villages of Novaya Sogra, Raduzhny, and Solnechny Ust-Kamenogorsk. It also provides thermal energy to JSC "Ust-Kamenogorsk Titanium-Magnesium Plant"[8] and the "Greenhouse Complex". The power station also sells electricity for the energy supplying organization Shygysenergotrade LLP.[9] The plant employs 240 people.[9] In 2019 the plant produced 370 million kWh of electricity.[9]

Construction of the Sogrinsk power station began in 1956. In 1961, the first boiler and 25MW turbine were commissioned. The second boiler and the 25MW turbine were commissioned in 1962.[9] In 2012 the turbine unit No. 1 was replaced with a 50MW unit.[9] Unit 2 has 25 MW capacity with total capacity of 75MW.[10]

In 2011 the EBRD extended a 10-year loan of 3.1 billion Tenge (ca EUR 15 million) to fund the plant’s 5.5 billion Kazakh tenge-worth rehabilitation programme, including the purchase and installation of modern energy efficient equipment, presumably the new 50MW turbine unit.[11][12] It was not clear whether the loan has been repaid when AES sold the plant in 2017.

Articles and Resources

References

  1. "Динмухамет Идрисов увеличивает энергетические активы," Forbes, April 18, 2017
  2. 2.0 2.1 Kazakhstan Utility Systems (2019). "2018 Financial Statements (p49)" (PDF). kus.kz. Retrieved December 2022. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |access-date= (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. "Corporate decision No 4". August 2018. Retrieved December 2022. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |access-date= (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. "Богатства Кайрата Сатыбалды как способ отвлечь от госизмены". kompromat.kz. April 2022. Retrieved December 2022. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |access-date= (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. "ТОВАРИЩЕСТВО С ОГРАНИЧЕННОЙ ОТВЕТСТВЕННОСТЬЮ "СОГРИНСКАЯ ТЭЦ"". opi.dfo.kz. unknown. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. "Денег нет, но вы держитесь: повторит ли Согринская ТЭЦ судьбу экибастузской?". orda.kz. December 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. "Written resolution of the sole shareholder - Sogra Energy". opi.dfo.kz. 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  8. "Усть-Каменогорский титано-магниевый комбинат". Wikipedia. Retrieved Nov 23, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 "О КОМПАНИИ (About the company)". sgsk.kz. Retrieved Nov 23, 2021 and December 2022. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |access-date= (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  10. "О КОМПАНИИ". sgsk.kz. Retrieved December 2023. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |access-date= (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  11. "EBRD extends energy efficiency investments in Kazakhstan". February 2011. Retrieved December 2022. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |access-date= (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  12. "Согринская ТЭЦ в Усть-Каменогорске провела общественные слушания по проекту реконструкции и модернизации". Online.zakon.kz. Retrieved Nov 23, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

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