EDMONTON — The Alberta Utilities Commission has fined another company for operating an electricity generator without a licence — using the power, like other offenders, to operate bitcoin mines.
In a settlement dated Tuesday, Energy Sustain Services is to pay a $10,000 fine for operating the power plant in Brazeau County, southwest of Edmonton, between February and May of 2022.
The commission says the company entered into an agreement with Response Energy to use gas from a previously suspended well to power 87 mines in addition to the well's operation. Response had suspended the well after closing the pipeline that connected it to its gathering system. An investigator later found noise levels exceeded guidelines. Energy Sustain Services was not charged with those violations because it wasn't clear whether the noise came from the generator or the bitcoin miners.
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