“Electricity production in Russia in April 2020 amounted to 85.098 billion kWh, a decrease of 3.7% compared with April 2019,” the Ministry of Energy website said in a statement.
It is noted that the main factors affecting the dynamics of production were cold weather and restrictions caused by the coronavirus.
On March 26, Vladimir Plotnikov, President of the Association of Peasant (Farm) Farms and Agricultural Cooperatives of Russia (AKKOR), commented on the initiative of the Ministry of Agriculture to reduce the cost of electricity for farmers and agricultural cooperatives to tariffs for the population.