Ramanathan: Industrial facilities should mimic crypto miners as flexible interruptible loads
Shalini Ramanathan · How will we power all those green factories? · May 22, 2023 · at 13:59
Quinbrook infrastructure investor Shalini Ramanathan discusses what industrial clean tech manufacturers can learn from flexible, interruptible power load models pioneered by crypto miners.
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“I think one of the reasons that cryptocurrency is interesting is because it's interruptible load. And so, you know, the crypto mining facilities are happy to use your low-cost green power and then go offline when it makes more sense to sell that green power. And that doesn't have to be specific to crypto mining. There are perhaps other facilities that can follow renewable generation instead of just, you know, just using power whenever they need it”
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