The total number of underground mining addresses exceeded 5,000, power engineers assure.
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Authorities of the region complained that power consumption in the Irkutsk region has increased by almost 1 GW over the past two years because of the miners. That is, the increase in electricity consumption increased by 69%.</nbsp;Most of the points of illegal mining is located in the capital;
“The outline of Irkutsk on the map is hard to make out, there are so many red marks signaling illegal mining,” the power engineers are outraged.
The city of Irkutsk is followed by Angarsk urban district, Khomutovo agglomeration, as well as Mamonov and Youth municipalities in the region.
The wiring in residential buildings is not designed to connect powerful equipment for mining, so fires often occur.. In February, a resident of the Irkutsk region died in a fire in a bathhouse where he had installed cryptocurrency mining equipment.Recently, Irkutskenergosbyt reported that the number of lawsuits filed against underground miners exceeded one thousand.. At the same time, 600 lawsuits worth 260 million rubles have already been satisfied;