New paper shows renewable operations using Bitcoin mining are both more profitable and lower-emission than renewable operations where Bitcoin mining is absent

The authors found that not only did Bitcoin mining have the potential to be a driver for large-scale renewable deployment in regions with abundant solar and wind resources, but also in hybrid systems (eg: solar + wind + diesel generation), Bitcoin mining reduced fossil fuel dependence while enabling a significantly higher renewable energy share

The paper is titled: Maximizing ROI in Cryptocurrency Mining Through Energy Optimization (Nasrinasrabadi et al. 2025)

Published in Energies, which has an Impact Factor of 3.2 (top 20% of journals)

Source: https://mdpi.com/1996-1073/18/22/5910