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Data / Break-even electricity price / 2021
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 2021 at 55.5¢ (January 1, 2021) and closed at 79.6¢ (December 31, 2021), up 43.5%. The high was 123.6¢ on October 22, 2021 and the low 55.5¢ on January 1, 2021.
| Month | Month end |
|---|---|
| January 2021 | 64.1¢ |
| February 2021 | 93.0¢ |
| March 2021 | 97.3¢ |
| April 2021 | 99.8¢ |
| May 2021 | 72.8¢ |
| June 2021 | 102.2¢ |
| July 2021 | 100.5¢ |
| August 2021 | 116.9¢ |
| September 2021 | 88.4¢ |
| October 2021 | 119.7¢ |
| November 2021 | 98.4¢ |
| December 2021 | 79.6¢ |
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 · 2020 · 2019 · 2018 · 2017 · 2016 · 2015 · 2014 · 2013
Also in 2021: 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