The Russian Ministry building of Free energy is looking to innovate special electricity tariffs for cryptocurrency miners following a migration of the industry into the country from nearby China.

Russian Free energy Minister Nikolai Shulginov appear Wednesday that the authority is working on a new framework to differentiate tariffs between general usage and cryptocurrency mining, local news agency RBC reported on Wednesday.

Shulginov said that cryptocurrency miners in Russia should not consume electricity at residential tariffs, stating:

"We can't allow miners capitalize on the situation at the expense of low residential electricity tariffs [...] In society to maintain the reliability and quality of power supply, we believe it is necessary to prohibit miners from consuming electricity at residential tariffs."

Some Russian regions accept reportedly faced explosive growth in energy consumption, allegedly due to Chinese miners exiting the land amid a nationwide crackdown on crypto.

Russian federation's Irkutsk region, located about 1,700 kilometers from Prc, has reportedly seen its energy consumption rates exceed last year'south by nearly 160%. Irkutsk Governor Igor Kobzev pointed to "avalanche-like growth" of energy consumption in the jurisdiction, blaming illegal crypto mining action worsened by the exodus of miners from China.

One of the biggest regions of Siberia, the Irkutsk region is rich with energy resources, hosting several big hydroelectricity stations in cities such as Irkutsk, Ust-Ilimsk and Bratsk. The region is domicile to some crypto mining data centers by BitRiver, the country'southward largest crypto mining colocation services provider.

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BitRiver founder and CEO Igor Runets told Cointelegraph that the company fully supports the latest initiative past the ministry of free energy:

"It is off-white and economically sound. Moreover, it will help miners enter the legal field, so the state can take the first step towards regulating the manufacture, which volition ultimately pb to transparency of the unabridged industry."

Runets said that the visitor pays for its information center electricity at business customer rates, paying "two.5 or iii times more than than individuals."

Russian federation has become one of the summit locations for Bitcoin (BTC) mining activity following the Chinese miner capitulation. According to the Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Alphabetize, Bitcoin miners in Russia business relationship for 11% of the total global BTC mining hash rate distribution, bested by only Kazakhstan and the United states.