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Fair point, but a single anecdote doesn’t equal the general case.

Texas is home to more Bitcoin miners than any other state. Up thread, I shared a detailed example from the Guardian explaining how the power purchase agreements between miners and energy utilities encourages investment in wind and solar build out to strengthen the Texas grid.

As someone who personally worked on the financial plan to build at the time the largest wind farm in Canada, I can say with confidence that wind and solar builds live and die on having enough long-term power purchase agreements to justify their financing.

From the article:

“If you were a miner that has a long-term power purchase agreement, then you own power at a fixed price … you’re committing to buying energy for years no matter what,” Les said.

As a bitcoin miner, you essentially own that power, and that allows you to work like a virtual power plant. You can take the power that you agreed to buy at a fixed lower price, and then you can sell that back to the grid.”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/aug/17/bitcoin-c...