According to the decision of the Arbitration Court of Khakassia, an underground miner who paid for energy at the rates for the population will have to pay an additional 28 million rubles for electricity.

The underground miner owned five plots of land in various cities and villages of the republic. There he installed equipment for mining cryptocurrencies. At the same time, there were no residential buildings or other outbuildings on the plots.

The court ordered the miner to be recalculated from the tariff for the population to the tariff for entrepreneurs. Given the scale of cryptocurrency mining, the underground miner must now pay 28 million rubles.

“The average monthly consumption at one of the miner’s sites in Bely Yar exceeded the electricity consumption of an ordinary residential building by 115 times. In Chernogorsk, the mining farm consumed 336 times more electricity per month than the average family living in the private sector. In total, electricity consumption at five sites over 10 months exceeded 3.9 million kWh,” the local sales organization AtomEnergoSbyt reported.

As the head of the State Tariff Committee of Khakassia Natalia Mikhailenko emphasized, the regional authorities are not against cryptocurrency mining, but energy must be paid for at the rates for entrepreneurs.

Earlier in Khakassia, a court ordered a miner to pay energy companies 3.8 million rubles.