Texas Bitcoin Miners Are Offered to Cut Electricity Usage to Help the Grid

The transfer will assist the state’s grid operator, Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), ease worries that the mining will put additional stress during times of excessive system demand. “Due to the anticipated interconnection of an growing variety of massive versatile Loads in the ERCOT Region, ERCOT is establishing an interim, voluntary curtailment program that may enable these Loads to help ERCOT in making certain reliability during times of excessive system demand,” ERCOT said in a statement.