To ease load on aging grid, state program offers energy credits to bitcoin miners to curtail their power consumption.

    • WalrusDragonOnABike@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      That’s 15MW for 4 hours. Typical period of tight conditions is probably more like 1 hour, so 4 hour capacity is overkill for what Texas has been going though this summer). You could get more capacity for a 2 hour period. I think Texas peak power demand was about 100GW (I think that excludes some parts of Texas that aren’t part of the Texas grid at the East and West ends)