A company named System Operator Ltd that manages Russia’s united power engineering network came up with a list of Russian regions that might be getting less power supply this coming winter.

Vedomosti newspaper refers to Mikhail Shulga of System Operator Ltd, giving names of nine regions that might experience cutbacks. These are Moscow and Moscow Region, Saint Petersburg and Leningrad Region, Krasnodar Territory, Tyumen Region, Sverdlovsk Region, Perm Region, Chelyabinsk Region, Nizhniy Novgorod Region, and the Republic of Komi.

All these areas were put on the list as early as April 2007 on the basis of their growing energy consumption. Yet the criteria for actually cutting down on energy supplies have not been elaborated yet.

Marita Nagoga of RAO UES of Russia says this information can be trusted, even though she did admit the final list of regions is to be adopted by the holding by October 1, 2007, Vedomosti reports.