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It sounds like a bandaid to paper over a poorly-conceived program of incentives while they work out something more permanent. They were using their power plant as a loss-leader to attract industry. Which explains why the local factory is "more allowed;" it's presumably because they expect the factory to generate more jobs and tax revenue than the bitcoin miner.

Instead of a flat cap, a MWH per employee would likely align best with the city's stated goals.

No one in Plattsburgh, NY is setting up a solar array. It's winter for 9 months of the year.

>So the truth is that people are using electric heaters instead of gas/oil based heating systems, and they are somehow blaming it on bitcoin mining?

what?

>What if the bitcoin miner (or any high-wattage business) sets up their own 1 MW solar array?

Why would a business that moved to (or set up in) Plattsburg to take advantage of the 2¢/KWh rate build any sort of energy production?