Residents of the city of Sysert in the Sverdlovsk region have set up an underground mining farm in their garages that steals electricity. The portal writes about this E1.
Electricity worth 1 million 160 thousand rubles in rubles was stolen.
The Rosseti Ural company said that on December 20, at one of its substations, the energy sector recorded a 40% overload of power equipment and a deterioration in the quality of electricity.
“Indications of unauthorized connection of garage boxes where commercial cryptocurrency mining activities are carried out have been detected,” he said.
The police will deal with the miners.
Previously at the Ministry of Energy saidThe change in the cost of electricity after the entry into force of differentiated tariffs will only affect those whose consumption is significantly above the regional average. Before that the Federal Antimonopoly Service suggested Introduce electricity tariffs from January 1, 2024 to solve the problem of gray mining.
Previously at the Ministry of Energy statedsupports the legalization of mining.