After breaking three new summer peak loads for its Wyoming electric subsidiary this summer, management for Rapid City, SD-based Black Hills Corp. highlighted the utility’s interruptible service tariff agreement with a cryptocurrency miner.

Black Hills Energy’s Cheyenne Light, Fuel and Power Co. “completed its first agreement for service under our blockchain tariff in Wyoming with a well established crypto miner that is investing in long-term operations in China,” said CEO Linn Evans during the second quarter earnings update. 

The utility is expecting to deliver up to 45 MW of electricity to the Cheyenne, WY-based crypto miner by year’s end, with an option to expand the service up to 75 MW. 

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