Ekibastuz GRES-2 chimney is the highest one in the world

Stack emissions into the atmosphere goes through a stack height of 420 meters. It entered in the Guinness Book of Records as the highest in the world. In 2007-2009, the station will carry out the following important phase: the installation of high-efficiency electrostatic firm «Alstom». This will significantly reduce plant emissions into the atmosphere, which, in turn, will significantly improve the ecological situation in the region of Pavlodar region.
In the Guinness Book of Records could get not only the chimney, but its EGRES-2 as the most powerful in the world, but at the moment it remained unfinished. Now the station is the Kazakh-Russia joint venture and the two power units can produce 1 thousand megawatts of electricity. This is quite enough to ensure that the railways of Kazakhstan, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Irtysh channel - Karaganda and Northern regions of the country. Incidentally, in the heyday of Ekibastuz, when the cuts began to issue on-mountain of 80 million tons of coal a year, beating world records here and the volume of rail traffic. In an effort to remove the power plant in the Urals and Siberia, as much cargo, railroad workers organized movement of heavy freight train and began forming superdlinnye and super-heavy trains that are both able to carry 12 thousand tons of coal. The trains of the 200 cars that are pulled by several sections of electric locomotives, stretched for two kilometers. And the stations operated facilities for loading and unloading of up to 1,5 thousand cars a day!