The share of cryptocurrency mining in Russia’s total energy consumption in 2022 was 0.6-0.8%. In this respect knowledgeable Pavel Snikkars, Deputy Minister of Energy of Russia.
“According to our data, mining consumption at the end of the year was around 0.6-0.8%. The prediction did not come true,” he said.
Deputy Minister in the first half of December estimated up to 1.5-2% growth in the share of mining in energy consumption.
According to Snikkars, the largest amount of electricity – 8.6% – is spent on cryptocurrency mining in the Irkutsk region. At least half of the growth came from cryptocurrency mining centers.
Kommersant newspaper in the second half of January WroteThe total capacity of Russian mining sites reaches 500 MW in 2022.
In early February, the press service of the main department of the Ministry of Emergencies in the Irkutsk region knowledgeable It’s about the death of an Angarsk resident during a fire in a bathhouse where he set up a mining farm to buy cryptocurrencies.