Russia offers Japan to build energy bridge connecting power grids

ST. PETERSBURG (Itar-Tass) - Russia offered Japan to build
an energy bridge, which will connect the power grids of the countries,
Russian Deputy Energy Minister Andrei Shishkin said at an international
conference devoted to the fuel and energy sector here on Wednesday.
"We have already made such an offer," he told reporters, noting that
"the creation of an energy bridge between Sakhalin and Japan requires
serious developments."
"There are serious calculations under a Sakhalin-Japan project,"
Shishkin noted.
The project to create an energy bridge between Sakhalin and Hokkaido
was considered back in the Soviet times, electric power engineers told
Itar-Tass.