Oleg Deripaska in 2018 can earn 1 billion rubles on the miners [↻70%]

Oleg Deripaska in 2018 can earn 1 billion rubles on the miners

En + Oleg Deripaska's group is negotiating with several funds, which attract investments in the construction of mining farms. The group will offer miners to build farms to produce crypto-currencies next to En + power plants in Irkutsk, Bratsk and Ust-Ilimsk. This is written by Vedomosti with reference to the CEO of En + Maxim Sokolov.

Cooperation with the miners allows En + to diversify the customer portfolio, however future electricity tariffs for the miners are not disclosed. Up to five En + sites can receive crypto currency: up to five En + sites: Ust-Ilimskaya HPP (its capacity is up to 3,840 MW), Ust-Ilimskaya CHPP (525 MW), Bratskaya HPP (4,500 MW), Irkutsk HPP (662 MW) and Irkutsk CHPP ( 655 MW).

According to estimates of En + itself, the need of electricity miners in 2018 may reach 100 MW. In ACRA, it was estimated that even such a volume of demand would allow En + to earn from $ 10 to $ 15 million. VTB Capital refers to the figure of the top "fork" - 980 million rubles or slightly more than $ 15 million. A source close to the management of the holding confirmed that it is close to expectations En +.

Internet ombudsman Dmitry Marinichev believes that earlier, when the rates were high, the miners could afford expensive sites, but with the fall in the price of the crypto currency, the miners will be interested in free capacities if they are offered low prices for electricity there.

The interlocutors of the publication named different variants of tariffs attractive for ministers. Marinichev himself believes that the price per kilowatt per hour should not exceed two rubles. In the Runa Capital fund, the optimal price is 3.5 rubles per kWh. Vedomosti calculated that in December last year the average price for electricity in Russia fluctuated between just 2.69 and 3.89 rubles per kWh.

Managing Partner of Crypto Technology Anton Sobin (this company plans to build a 10-megawatt mining center in 2018) believes that it will be beneficial for En + to attract miners from China, where strict prohibitive regulation is now in force, and the capacity of individual farms reaches 50 MW.