The Québec authorities’s utility firm, Hydro-Québec, has requested the reallocation of 270 megawatts of power put aside for cryptocurrency mining, as soon as once more signaling one other Canadian authorities entity’s need to curtail or modify bitcoin mining within the nation. As of December of 2021, Canada had 6.48% of global hash rate in accordance with the Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index.
A Bitcoin Magazine article from 2021 particulars the assorted regulatory challenges in Canada, in addition to the profitable operations that proceed to prosper within the nation regardless of these. Recently, the Manitoba province’s authorities set an 18-month moratorium on new mining operations. In the previous, Canada has experienced large influxes of miners searching for to benefit from the abundance of energy there.
According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, “Hydro-Québec prices the bottom charges for industrial energy in North America, with common costs as of April 1 of three.93 cents per kilowatt-hour… The common value in North America is 8.22 cents, in accordance with Hydro-Québec.”
The request is up for approval by Québec’s power regulator, Régie de l’énergie du Québec, which is believed to be accomplished inside the subsequent few months. The transfer wouldn’t prohibit energy to current corporations inside the province, however might impression future improvement and funding into the area.
Bitcoin miners’ capacity to maneuver their tools does make it doable for operations to shift out of the area to extra pleasant places equivalent to Texas or Wyoming, which might change into prime examples of the facility of favorable regulation. This has been demonstrated earlier than, most dramatically with the hash rate migration out of China after their bitcoin mining ban.
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