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As opposed to selling that electricity back to the utility company at say $0.04/kWh it may be better to drop off a "bit coin rig" at the customers house that's capable of using up the extra 2,000 kWh in the course of say a week.
2000 kWh burned in a week requires a 12kW load (10 Th/s, say), requiring a 60A/240V circuit from the Service Panel. Few homes have such an available circuit.
Adding this continuous load to existing loads would also possibly blow the typical residential distribution transformer, which are typically designed to serve four or five typical 5kW max demand residences.
Maybe 2000 kWh burned in a month would work, power-wise. 3kW load (2.5Th/s, say), 30A/120V circuit (or 15A/240V).
A 10Th rig costs, what, $50,000? A 2.5 Th rig costs $10,000?