The underground miner owned five land plots in various cities and villages of the republic at once. There he installed equipment for mining cryptocurrencies. At the same time, there were no residential buildings and other outbuildings on the plots.
The court decided to recalculate for the miner from the tariff for the population to the tariff for entrepreneurs. Given the scale of cryptocurrency mining, the underground miner now has to pay 28 million rubles.
"The average monthly consumption at one of the mining sites in Bely Yar exceeded the electricity consumption in an ordinary residential building by 115 times. In Chernogorsk, a mining farm consumed 336 times more electricity per month than the average family living in the private sector. In total, electricity consumption in five sites exceeded 3.9 million kWh in 10 months," the local sales organization AtomEnergoSbyt reported.
As Natalia Mikhaylenko, head of the State Tariff Committee of Khakassia, stressed, the regional authorities are not against mining cryptocurrencies, but it is necessary to pay for energy at tariffs for entrepreneurs.
Earlier in Khakassia, the court ordered the miner to pay 3.8 million rubles to power engineers.
