The transfer will assist the state’s grid operator, Electrical Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), ease worries that the mining will put additional stress in periods of excessive system demand. “As a result of anticipated interconnection of an growing variety of massive versatile Hundreds within the ERCOT Area, ERCOT is establishing an interim, voluntary curtailment program that will enable these Hundreds to help ERCOT in making certain reliability in periods of excessive system demand,” ERCOT stated in a press release.