Shulginov explained that according to current rules, energy companies must provide connection to the networks to everyone. However, miners are built quickly and require a large amount of electricity, so energy shortages may occur in some regions. Thus, in order to ensure higher priority connection of industrial and housing and communal facilities, laws need to be changed.
“We not only want, but persistently propose that miners be excluded from non-discriminatory access altogether, or at least temporarily. This way, we will be able to first connect industrial, social facilities, housing and communal services, and then mining production can begin,” Shulginov said at the Eastern Economic Forum.
The minister noted that mining activities are still not regulated. He also emphasized that the proposal to limit miners applies throughout the country, and not just in regions with energy shortages.
“Currently in South-Eastern Siberia it is not always possible to connect new consumers, although we have non-discriminatory access to energy supplies. Everyone who requested must be connected. The miners came first, they build quickly. And after them some housing and communal services facility came, but there was no free power, they couldn’t connect it,” said Shulginov.
Earlier it was reported that an underground miner on Sakhalin stole electricity worth 22 million rubles.
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