On The Brink with Castle Island James McGinniss (David Energy) on Mining as a Load Resource (EP.262)
Nov 22, 2021
46:38
We sit down with James McGinniss, CEO and Cofounder of David Energy to talk about Bitcoin's role in the energy transition and how Bitcoin mining is a useful source of flexible load for increasingly renewable grids. In this episode:
- The fundamental change happening in the US grid today
- What distributed energy resources are and why they are important
- Why DERs are catching on in California
- Why bitcoin allows load to move to supply
- Why better metering improves the prospects for demand response
- How demand response works nationwide
- Why there's a fundamental tradeoff between uptime and power prices
- Why Bitcoin is the best demand response resource
- The prospects for other location agnostic load resources
- Do better batteries obsolete Bitcoin mining as a grid balancer?
- How David Energy is working with Bitcoin miners
- Why Bitcoin miners should trade mining uptime for cheaper power
- Are grid operators designing programs for bitcoin miners?
- Why there's a longer tail of energy assets that miners should take advantage of
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