{"id":43079,"date":"2021-09-27T14:37:54","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T14:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packetstormsecurity.com\/news\/view\/32671\/Old-Coal-Plant-Is-Now-Mining-Bitcoin-For-A-Utility-Company.html"},"modified":"2021-09-27T14:37:54","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T14:37:54","slug":"old-coal-plant-is-now-mining-bitcoin-for-a-utility-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/old-coal-plant-is-now-mining-bitcoin-for-a-utility-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Coal Plant Is Now Mining Bitcoin For A Utility Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/bitcoin-lightning-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Old coal plant is now mining bitcoin for a utility company\"><figcaption class=\"caption\">\n<div class=\"caption-credit\">Aurich Lawson \/ Getty<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside id=\"social-left\" class=\"social-left\" aria-label=\"Read the comments or share this article\"><a title=\"129 posters participating\" class=\"comment-count icon-comment-bubble-down\" href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2021\/09\/old-coal-plant-is-now-mining-bitcoin-for-a-utility-company\/?comments=1\"> <\/p>\n<h4 class=\"comment-count-before\">reader comments<\/h4>\n<p> <span class=\"comment-count-number\">239<\/span> <span class=\"visually-hidden\"> with 129 posters participating<\/span> <\/a> <\/p>\n<div class=\"share-links\">\n<h4>Share this story<\/h4>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><!-- cache hit 299:single\/related:eb0e000110f3aec64e094e7f141066f4 --><!-- empty --><\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin\u2019s massive power consumption is cryptocurrency\u2019s dirty secret. To mine bitcoin, computers across the globe chew through enough electricity to power a medium-size country, somewhere on the order of the <a href=\"https:\/\/cbeci.org\/cbeci\/comparisons\">Netherlands<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/digiconomist.net\/bitcoin-energy-consumption\/\">Poland<\/a> depending on the estimate.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, electricity has become such a significant factor that one private equity firm <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2021\/05\/private-equity-firm-revives-zombie-fossil-fuel-power-plant-to-mine-bitcoin\/\">owns a power plant to mine bitcoin<\/a>. The company, Greenidge Generation, said at one point that it could mine one bitcoin for less than $3,000. Even today\u2014at $40,000 per bitcoin, some 30 percent off its peak\u2014the potential for profit is real.<\/p>\n<p>Which is why an investor-owned utility has dropped a containerized data center outside a coal-fired power plant 10 miles north of St. Louis. Ameren, the utility, was struggling to keep the 1,099 MW power plant running profitably when wholesale electricity prices dropped. But it wasn\u2019t well suited to running only when demand was high, so-called peaker duty. Instead, it&#8217;s experimenting with running it full-time and using the excess electricity to mine bitcoin.<\/p>\n<h2>Can\u2019t cope with the load<\/h2>\n<p>Ameren executives reportedly blame wind and solar power for the load variability that taxes the 55-year-old power plant. The utility claims that mining bitcoin could reduce its carbon footprint by allowing it to run its plants more consistently rather than ramping them up and down, which they say can increase emissions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have pretty dramatic changes in load minute by minute, second by second at times,\u201d Warren Wood, the utility\u2019s vice president of regulatory and legislative affairs, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/articles\/coal-to-cryptocurrency-an-answer-to-grid-volatility\/\">E&amp;E News<\/a>. But when it\u2019s running full time, they only have to take power away from the mining operations. Wood said it takes about 20 seconds to divert power back to the grid.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad_wrapper\" aria-label=\"In Content advertisement\"> <span class=\"ad_notice\">Advertisement <\/span> <\/aside>\n<p>Compared with gas peakers, which typically need at least <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S1364032117309206\">five minutes<\/a> to ramp up to full capacity, that\u2019s pretty quick. But it\u2019s also incredibly slow when compared with grid-scale batteries, which can respond within <a href=\"https:\/\/core.ac.uk\/download\/pdf\/36657235.pdf\">milliseconds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Across the entire grid, cryptocurrency mining operations could \u201cadd a lot of value, particularly how fast they can move up and down, Joshua Rhodes, a research associate at the University of Texas at Austin, told E&amp;E News. \u201cIt can have a positive emissions impact if it\u2019s run the right way,\u201d he said. \u201cIt can also increase emissions if it\u2019s not.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>\u201cSlippery slope\u201d<\/h2>\n<p>Ameren attempted to get rate-payers to foot a portion of the bill for its experiment, but Missouri\u2019s consumer advocate pushed back. \u201cIf Ameren Missouri wants to enter into speculative commodities, like virtual currencies, then it should do so as a non-regulated service where ratepayers are unexposed to the economics of them,\u201d Geoff Marke, chief economist for the Missouri Office of the Public Counsel, wrote in a filing. \u201cThis endeavor is beyond the scope of intended electric utility regulation, and, if allowed, creates a slippery slope where ratepayers could be asked to put up capital for virtually anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The utility says that if its bitcoin experiment pans out, it could attach similar containerized data centers to wind and solar farms to soak up excess electricity profitably in times of high supply or low demand. The coal-fired power plant that&#8217;s being used in the experiment is scheduled to be shut down in 2028.<\/p>\n<p>Ameren says that so far it\u2019s pleased with the project, which has mined 20 coins and mints a new one at a rate of one every 15 days or so. Whether the math continues to work depends largely on the cost of running the plant and the price of bitcoin, which is highly volatile. Based on today\u2019s prices, the company has made about $800,000 since it switched on the miners in April.<\/p>\n<p> READ MORE <a href=\"https:\/\/packetstormsecurity.com\/news\/view\/32671\/Old-Coal-Plant-Is-Now-Mining-Bitcoin-For-A-Utility-Company.html\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>READ MORE HERE&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43080,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[7083],"class_list":["post-43079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-packet-storm","tag-headlinebankcryptography"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Old Coal Plant Is Now Mining Bitcoin For A Utility Company 2026 | ThreatsHub Cybersecurity 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