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Break-even electricity price in 2019

The electricity price, in cents per kWh, at which each class of bitcoin miner stops covering its power.

13.5 J/TH (S21 XP class) opened 2019 at 51.4¢ (January 1, 2019) and closed at 45.2¢ (December 31, 2019), down 12.0%. The high was 111.9¢ on July 14, 2019 and the low 40.4¢ on December 23, 2019.

13.5 J/TH (S21 XP class), month by month in 2019

MonthMonth end
January 201948.7¢
February 201954.6¢
March 201951.1¢
April 201964.2¢
May 201996.5¢
June 201998.3¢
July 201981.3¢
August 201978.0¢
September 201952.0¢
October 201955.6¢
November 201944.7¢
December 201945.2¢

The power price at which a machine’s daily revenue exactly equals its electricity bill: above the line it mines at a loss, below it the difference is margin. Each line is a class of machine by efficiency.

Other years: 2026 · 2025 · 2024 · 2023 · 2022 · 2021 · 2020 · 2018 · 2017 · 2016 · 2015 · 2014 · 2013

Also in 2019: Bitcoin price · Distance from the all-time high · 200-day and 200-week averages · Network hashrate · Mining difficulty · Difficulty adjustments · Fees paid to miners · Transactions per day · Hashprice · Miner revenue · Bitmain releases and the bitcoin price · What a bitcoin costs us to mine, against the market

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