Flexible Load and the Electricity Grid: A Bitcoin Story

Over the past few years, a strange industrial electricity customer has taken the industry by storm: Bitcoin mining. In 2021, the nascent Bitcoin mining industry, which had primarily been in China, shipped massive amounts of hardware and opportunity to capture global market share to the United States.

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IEEE Power and Energy Magazine
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2025-08-20
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https://doi.org/10.1109/mpe.2025.3575551
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Smart Grid Energy Management
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Flexible Load and the Electricity Grid: A Bitcoin Story

Srijib Mukherjee, B. T. King
IEEE Power and Energy Magazine
Smart Grid Energy Management
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Flexible Load and the Electricity Grid: A Bitcoin Story

Srijib Mukherjee, B. T. King
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Over the past few years, a strange industrial electricity customer has taken the industry by storm: Bitcoin mining. In 2021, the nascent Bitcoin mining industry, which had primarily been in China, shipped massive amounts of hardware and opportunity to capture global market share to the United States.

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