It is located close to Solnechny, by lake Shandaksor.

The ashes of the station are dumped into nearby lake Karasor.

[1] GRES-2, commissioned in 1987, has an installed capacity of 1,000 MWe and has the world's tallest flue-gas stack at 419.7 metres (1,377 ft) tall.

The reinforced concrete chimney is about 40 m (130 ft) taller than the Inco Superstack in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.

[citation needed] The power station is the start of the Powerline Ekibastuz–Kokshetau and uses a transmission voltage of 1,150 kVAC, the highest transmission voltage in the world.