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I got two text messages from the electric company asking folks to reduce electricity usage in a space of 30 min. yesterday. I'm a small miner. 10 s9s but that represents about 12K worth of KW/h. Can they see this?
I shut them down last night just to be a good neighbor. I wouldn't want the whole street to be shut down because some in the Entergy control room saw me using so much electricity lol.

So, in short, yes your electric company can easily guess from where the energy consumption is coming from. I don't know specifics but whenever you build a house you have to let the main council of the area and the electric distributor know how much do you estimate in order for them to see if the main transformer has enough free capacity to deliver that need. If, in some rare instance, the whole neighborhood gets shutdown I'm sure they'll be looking why/what caused the overload in their systems...

[1] https://www.ovoenergy.com/guides/energy-guides/how-much-electricity-does-a-home-use.html

I've shut them down for the time being after reading the posts here. The weather is seriously causing problems. I don't want to be responsible for shutting down our street. But, those 10 miners are making a profit. I hate to see them shut down. Guess I'll wait for the snow to melt haha.

What do you pay for power? At .12/ KWh those babies are pulling in just under 70 cents a day, probably better to err on the side of caution.

.08/Kwh.