Miners love to say they are a ‘flexible load’. Regulators and grid planners hear that and immediately ask: what does the spreadsheet look like?
In practice, utilities run scenarios that focus on ramp rates, curtailment frequency, and how quickly a site can respond to price signals. They care less about Bitcoin and more about whether your facility behaves like a controllable industrial asset.
Key variables inside the utility model
- Ramp-down time from full load to safe minimum.
- Minimum run hours per day for your economics to make sense.
- How much notice is required before curtailment.
- Credit quality and length of the offtake agreement.
If you can express your project in those terms — not just terahash and block rewards — you’re speaking the same language as the planner on the other side of the table.