[darawk]

Charge more for the electricity. Take the profit and cut a check to the productive companies. Problem solved.

[jdietrich]

If you charge the Bitcoin miners more, they will just leave - they go wherever they can find the cheapest electricity. I have no objection to charging the miners more, but your proposal seems to be a needlessly complex administrative option.

[darawk]

Indeed they will. Sounds like a problem solved to me. Charge a market rate for your electricity, then subsidize what you want to subsidize.

[s73v3r_]

And what about the residents of the area? Do they now just have to suffer with higher bills, or are they going to get a rebate too?

[darawk]

They should sell their power at a market rate. If they want to subsidize people or companies ex-post, then they should feel free to do that.