Our principal power plant is located in the Karaganda Region and runs on coal from  two coal mines, located at Borly: Molodezhny, a surface strip mine, and Kuu-Chekinskoe, an open pit mine.  These mines produce enough coal to supply the heat and power plants at Karaganda, Zhezkazgan and Balkhash as well as generating power for external customers. In total, they have combined reserves of 50 years.

In 2007, we produced 7.5 MT of coal, approximately 90% of which was used by the Group. Coal is transported to our power plants using our own railway system.

The power plant supplies electricity to the Zhezkazgan and Balkhash Complexes through the national grid on a credit system.  This allows us to use our own power  whilst paying only the cost of transmission.

In 2007, the Group produced 6,409 GWh of electricity, the majority of which was used internally.

The coal-fired power and heating plants at the Zhezkazgan and Balkhash Complexes supplement the electricity provided by the main plant and also produce hot water for local heating.