Russia: electricity supplies being cut off to consumers in Altay Republic

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Russia: electricity supplies being cut off to consumers in Altay republic Source: BBC Monitoring Former Soviet Union - Economic Publication date: 2000-09-28

Text of report by ITAR-TASS news agency Gorno-Altaysk, 28th September: Evening electricity supplies to consumers in the Republic of Altay are subject to intermittent interruption. People have light for four hours and none for the next two. The Gorno-Altaysk grid company told ITAR-TASS that the main reason for this is that the republic's enterprises and population owe energy suppliers over R17m, a large sum for a republic with just 200,000 inhabitants.

The energy suppliers say they have cut the daily minimum supply of electricity (860,000 KWh) by 25 per cent. The level of supply will be reviewed 1st October and may be subject to further reduction.

The evening interruptions in electricity supplies started straight after an announcement was made on republican radio in Gorno-Altaysk on 27th September. The announcement was that the chairman of the republic's government, Semen Zubakin, had agreed in Moscow with the management of the UES national grid company that the region's debts must be regulated and that customers in the republic would not be disconnected.

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-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), September 28, 2000


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