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Making friends and influencing people: Russia may cut electricity to Finland
(UPI) -- Russia`s state electricity company may cut the amount of power it is sending to Finland as both countries struggle with bitterly cold winter weather. Boris Vainzikher, technical director of Unified Energy System, said that keeping up supplies to St. Petersburg and the surrounding area might require the cut, Russia`s Interfax News Agency reported. In Finland, Fingrid, the company that handles power transmission, said a flood of cold air from Siberia that drove temperatures down Wednesday night to almost 8 degrees below zero (-22 Celsius) in Helsinki and minus 40 degrees (-40 degrees Celsius) in Lapland drove power consumption up to a record for this winter. Fingrid Thursday warned customers that the system was close to capacity. In Moscow, temperatures have dropped to minus 22 (-30 Celsius). Margarita Nagoga, a UES spokeswoman, told RIA Novosti that the utility`s Finnish partners have agreed to a cut of 400 Megawatts at peak periods in the next five days. Pile the quilts high on the beds, boys and girls -- it's going to get cold tonight! Posted by: trailing wife 2006-01-20 |
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