{"id":51176,"date":"2021-10-14T11:14:50","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T08:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=51176"},"modified":"2025-09-02T22:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T19:16:10","slug":"belaruss-ministry-of-energy-places-miners-in-a-separate-electricity-tariff-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/belaruss-ministry-of-energy-places-miners-in-a-separate-electricity-tariff-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Belarus&#8217;s Ministry of Energy places miners in a separate electricity tariff group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cryptocurrency miners and data-centre operators in Belarus have been placed in a new tariff group for electricity consumers. The change is set out in a joint <a href=\"https:\/\/pravo.by\/document\/?guid=12551&#038;p0=W22137232&#038;p1=1&#038;p5=0\">\u043f\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0430\u043d\u043e\u0432\u043b\u0435\u043d\u0438\u0438<\/a> by the Ministry of Energy and the Ministry of Antimonopoly Regulation and Trade.<\/p>\n<p>The volume of electricity consumed by organisations engaged in data processing, information storage services and related activities, including mining and the operation of <span data-descr=\"data centre\" class=\"old_tooltip\">data centres<\/span>, starts at 25 million kWh per year and above.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Energy also allocated four tariff groups for this category depending on electricity consumption:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>from 25 million kWh to 50 million kWh;<\/li>\n<li>from 50 million kWh to 300 million kWh;<\/li>\n<li>from 300 million kWh to 500 million kWh;<\/li>\n<li>from 500 million kWh and above.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An additional tariff group may be allocated by presidential decree.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, Belarus signed a decree legalising mining activity.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, President Alexander Lukashenko proposed building a large data centre for mining near the Belarusian nuclear power plant.<\/p>\n<p>In February 2021, the Ministry of Energy of Belarus stated that <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/belarusian-ministry-of-energy-says-it-is-studying-the-prospects-of-cryptocurrency-mining\">studying prospects for cryptocurrency mining<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cryptocurrency miners and data-centre operators in Belarus have been placed in a new tariff group for electricity consumers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[239,1137,504],"class_list":["post-51176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-belarus","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-energy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"11","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51178,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51176\/revisions\/51178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}