Company: CLSKW
Filing Date: 2025-02-06
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0000950170-25-015470
Chunk: 145

Company: CLEANSPARK, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-02-06
Form: 10-Q
Item: Item 8
Chunk 145
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Energy prices can be highly volatile and global events can impact energy rates. We have a diverse portfolio of power contracts across our wholly owned and operated sites in the State of Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee and Wyoming. The majority of these contracts and our previously hosted miners in New York State are currently subject to variable prices and market rate fluctuations with respect to wholesale power costs. Such prices are governed by power purchase agreements which vary by location, and said prices can change hour to hour. While this renders energy prices less predictable, it also gives us greater ability and flexibility to actively manage the energy we consume with a goal of increasing profitability and energy efficiency. Energy prices are also highly sensitive to weather events, such as winter storms and polar vortices, which periodically increase the demand for power regionally. When such events occur, we may curtail our operations to avoid using power at increased rates, at the request of grid operators in cases of emergencies or to support utility grid resiliency efforts. The average power prices we paid under our power contracts at our owned facilities for the three months ended December 31, 2024 and 2023 were $0.049 and $0.044 per KWH, respectively. 

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The management and operations teams make real-time determinations on the need and timing during which we should curtail our operations. We curtail when power prices exceed the value we would receive for the corresponding fixed bitcoin reward in response to utility programs. This means if bitcoin’s value decreases or energy prices increase, our curtailment may increase; likewise, when bitcoin’s value increases and energy prices decrease, our curtailment may decrease. The management and operations teams manage these decision on an hour-by-hour basis across all our sites, both wholly owned and hosted. The Company did not have significant curtailment and maintained an average uptime greater than 90% during the three months ended December 31, 2024. A large portion of the curtailment during the quarter related to Hurricane Helene which affected our Georgia sites at the end of September 2024 to the beginning of October 2024. The southeast Georgia sites were shut down as the hurricane began impacting the region, thus at the beginning of the October 2024, these sites were operating on approximately 200 MW which gradually increased during the same week to its the full 365 MW capacity when utilities was restored to the communities.

The Company records depreciation expense (a non-cash expense) on its miners on a straight-line basis over the miners' expected useful life