Ministry of Energy wants to prohibit businesses to connect their enterprises directly to the backbone power grids of the Federal Grid Company, according to the Ministry's draft law. From January 2024, all new customers will be obliged to connect to the FGCs only through the backbone grid company, whose tariff will be several times higher. Status of the backbone company will be assigned to the largest grid company in the region, so in some constituent entities of the Russian Federation, this status will obviously be given to subsidiaries of Russian Grids.