New paper: Bitcoin mining enables better absorption of surplus renewable generation, minimizing curtailment and supporting higher renewable integration without extra storage or infrastructure costs, creating a win-win for grid stability and mining profitability The finding is significant, because it establishes Bitcoin Mining as the only way grid operators can avoid the significant cost of balancing frequency fluctuations and operational cost increases that doesn't involve significant capital outlay on grids with high renewable penetration Source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378779625007874 The paper "Leveraging Bitcoin Mining in Demand-Response to Mitigate Ramping-Induced Transients" (Ginzburg-Ganz et al. 2026) was published in Electric Power Systems Research. Impact Factor: 4.2 (top 12% of academic journals worldwide).(Daniel Batten)