Crypto Mining with Solar Calculator
Walk through a guided setup for your miner fleet, solar array, and batteries. Estimate energy flows, grid imports, electricity-inflation-aware cash flows, payback time, and long-term profit in one place.
Size the system without digging through every engineering input first
Move from project mode to ROI in five steps. Recommendations stay automatic until you decide to override them.
Project type
Choose the operating mode and how you want to size solar.
Solar is targeting 75% of combined load.
The calculator uses this to recommend PV size. Off-grid is forced to 100%.
Your setup at a glance
Recommended defaults stay visible while you move through the wizard.
Solar payback split
Overall payback includes miner hardware and mining revenue. The split below only repays the solar + battery share for house and mining loads separately.
137 of year 1 avoided grid spend against 846 of solar + battery cost.
739 of year 1 avoided grid spend against 4,554 of solar + battery cost.
What drives this result
The calculator keeps the big levers visible before the detailed tables.
Detailed model
Keep the headline outputs simple. Expand the engineering detail when you need it.
Scenario comparison lines
Enable at least one available line to compare cumulative electricity-supply cost.
Grid-tied comparison lines assume exported solar earns this share of the retail electricity price.
These lines compare electricity-supply cost only. They include solar and battery upfront cost, residual grid spend, and export credit, but not miner hardware or mining revenue.
Cash flow over time
Energy balance for a typical day
Year-by-year economics
- Grid price
- 0.10
- Feed-in
- 0.08
- Mining rev
- 7,242
- Grid cost
- 4,719
- Export rev
- 0
- OPEX
- 290
- Net cash
- 2,234
- Grid price
- 0.10
- Feed-in
- 0.08
- Mining rev
- 6,517
- Grid cost
- 4,719
- Export rev
- 0
- OPEX
- 290
- Net cash
- 1,509
- Grid price
- 0.10
- Feed-in
- 0.08
- Mining rev
- 5,866
- Grid cost
- 4,719
- Export rev
- 0
- OPEX
- 290
- Net cash
- 858
- Grid price
- 0.10
- Feed-in
- 0.08
- Mining rev
- 5,279
- Grid cost
- 4,719
- Export rev
- 0
- OPEX
- 290
- Net cash
- 271
- Grid price
- 0.10
- Feed-in
- 0.08
- Mining rev
- 4,751
- Grid cost
- 4,719
- Export rev
- 0
- OPEX
- 290
- Net cash
- -257
- Grid price
- 0.10
- Feed-in
- 0.08
- Mining rev
- 4,276
- Grid cost
- 4,719
- Export rev
- 0
- OPEX
- 290
- Net cash
- -732
- Grid price
- 0.10
- Feed-in
- 0.08
- Mining rev
- 3,848
- Grid cost
- 4,719
- Export rev
- 0
- OPEX
- 290
- Net cash
- -1,160
- Grid price
- 0.10
- Feed-in
- 0.08
- Mining rev
- 3,464
- Grid cost
- 4,719
- Export rev
- 0
- OPEX
- 290
- Net cash
- -1,544
- Grid price
- 0.10
- Feed-in
- 0.08
- Mining rev
- 3,117
- Grid cost
- 4,719
- Export rev
- 0
- OPEX
- 290
- Net cash
- -1,891
- Grid price
- 0.10
- Feed-in
- 0.08
- Mining rev
- 2,806
- Grid cost
- 4,719
- Export rev
- 0
- OPEX
- 290
- Net cash
- -2,203
How this calculator thinks
Under the hood, the model still simulates a "typical day" hour by hour: solar production, miner and household load, battery charge and discharge, grid imports/exports, and unmet load for undersized off-grid systems. The difference is that the interface now guides you through the setup instead of asking for every engineering assumption at once.
- Solar yield from system size, peak sun hours, and losses.
- Miner power from count, per-miner watts, and uptime.
- Battery behavior from capacity, depth of discharge, and efficiency.
- Yearly cash flows from mining revenue, grid costs, OPEX, and feed-in revenue, using either flat-price real mode or an electricity-inflation-aware outlook.
Use it for ASIC mining farms, off-grid pilots, or grid-tied installations where solar offsets energy costs.
Practical defaults, tweakable
- Start with system mode and whether you already have a solar quote.
- Pick a miner preset or use the auto-pick shortcut.
- Add site load, grid pricing, and solar assumptions.
- Review the recommended solar and battery sizing, then tune finance assumptions.
When you want more control, open the advanced sections inside each step to tune solar efficiency, battery behavior, discount rates, electricity inflation, and yearly mining revenue change.
Frequently asked questions
What does this calculator estimate?
It estimates the economics of running crypto miners powered by solar, with or without batteries. The guided setup walks through system mode, miner choice, site load, solar sizing, and financial assumptions, then converts the energy model into yearly cash flows, payback time, and long-term profit.
Does it use live coin prices and difficulty?
No. You provide the expected daily revenue per miner at current difficulty and price, plus an optional yearly change percentage. This keeps the model transparent and easy to adjust as markets move.
Can it account for energy-price inflation?
Yes. In the financial step you can switch on electricity inflation. That yearly rate is then used to grow grid prices, export value, and running costs, so you can compare a flat-price view with an inflation-aware one.
Can I simulate fully off-grid mining?
Yes. Switch the system mode to off-grid and size solar and batteries. The tool will warn you if the system is undersized and cannot cover the full daily load.
Is this financial advice?
No. This is an engineering-style calculator for back-of-the-envelope planning. Always treat results as estimates and combine them with your own research and local regulatory, tax, and installation constraints.
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