{"id":54302,"date":"2021-12-08T11:18:45","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T09:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=54302"},"modified":"2025-09-03T19:46:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T16:46:52","slug":"in-irkutsk-region-bitcoin-miners-face-higher-electricity-tariffs-after-court-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/in-irkutsk-region-bitcoin-miners-face-higher-electricity-tariffs-after-court-ruling\/","title":{"rendered":"In Irkutsk region, Bitcoin miners face higher electricity tariffs after court ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Irkutskenergosbyt filed 85 lawsuits against owners of crypto farms in private homes, totaling 73.3 million rubles, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kommersant.ru\/doc\/5117886\">Kommersant<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In nine cases the company managed to shift the farms from residential tariffs to commercial rates. After recalculation, the energy supplier will be able to refund 18.7 million rubles.<\/p>\n<p>The region has the cheapest electricity prices in Russia. For rural residents the tariff is 0.86 rubles per kWh, and for small businesses \u2014 3.6 rubles.<\/p>\n<p>Since January, Irkutskenergosbyt has detected more than 1,000 cases of &#8220;gray&#8221; mining.<\/p>\n<p>The first mine was uncovered in 2019 in the village of Plishkino. A house of 148.5 square metres consumed 193,000 kWh a month, about a quarter of the village&#8217;s total consumption. Following the court ruling, the homeowner was issued an electricity recalculation totaling more than 7.5 million rubles, of which he has already paid 6.9 million rubles.<\/p>\n<p>As reported in October, the governor of Irkutsk Oblast, Igor Kobzev, complained to the government about <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/irkutsk-governor-complains-to-government-about-illegal-miners\">increased electricity consumption caused by miners<\/a>. In response, regional entrepreneurs proposed <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/irkutsk-region-entrepreneurs-push-for-special-tariffs-for-miners\">introducing special electricity tariffs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Irkutsk experience could, in the future, be extended nationwide \u2013 the Ministry of Energy has already <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/ministry-of-energy-rules-out-applying-a-preferential-tariff-to-bitcoin-miners\">ruled out applying a preferential tariff<\/a> for Bitcoin miners.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog bitcoin news on our <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 crypto news, prices and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irkutskenergosbyt filed 85 lawsuits against owners of crypto farms in private homes, totaling 73.3 million rubles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"Irkutskenergosbyt filed 85 lawsuits against crypto-farm owners in private homes for 73.3 million rubles.","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1162,1137,504,27],"class_list":["post-54302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-court-cases","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-energy","tag-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"30","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"Irkutskenergosbyt filed 85 lawsuits against crypto-farm owners in private homes for 73.3 million rubles.","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54304,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54302\/revisions\/54304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}