A large farm cryptocurrencies in Texas generated $9.5 million in revenue from energy credits, a much higher amount than it would have earned mining bitcoin.
Although they had to stop their operations due to the heat wave in the state, Riot Blockchain they made millions thanks to power purchase agreements signed on the local grid, which allowed them to sell the electricity they bought for a higher sum.
valuable energy
the same Riot Blockchain announced that it had earned an estimated $9.5 million in energy credits thanks to the multiple times it shut down its mining rigs.
In the same report, the company states that it sold 275 bitcoinwith equivalent revenues of 5.6 million dollars.
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, also known as ERCOT, had asked businesses to routinely shut down to conserve electricity during July. Riot and his massive mining facility bitcoin of 750 megawatts in Rockdale, Texas, reduced power several times during times of peak demand.
ERCOT offers power purchase agreements that generally have a one-year term for large companies, according to which Riot Blockchain was welcomed.
The amount of bitcoin produced during this last month was 318, 28% less than the same month last year. While the companies publicly agreed to the shutdowns to preserve the grid, they also avoided spiking electricity prices during peak loads.
Higher revenue expected
The Texas Grid System has said that crypto miners will put a six-gigawatt demand on the network by next year.
Congressional Democrats warned that the seven largest mining rigs in the US. they consume energy equivalent to all the residential houses in the city of Houston.
Most Texas mining operations voluntarily shut down operations once the local price of power on the ERCOT network exceeded $180 or more per megawatt hour, which would essentially incur a negative net cost to extract its bitcoin
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