The Defense Ministry’s shipyard Nerpa in Snezhnogorsk on the Kola Peninsula has nearly 50 million rubles (app €1,2 million) in unpaid electricity bills to the local electricity company Kolenergosbyt. The shipyard is now left without electricity after it neglected to fulfill an agreement with Kolenergosbyt on repayment by April 6, MB News reports.
According to Nerpa’s press secretary Irina Anzulatova, the debt is a result of lack of financing from the Defense Ministry. She says this is the first time that the main production hall and dock are cut off from power.
MB News reports that the shipyard has one diesel-electric submarine in for repairs at the moment. It is uncertain if there are any nuclear submarines on the premises.
