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Under the authority of section 4.1 of the Public Utilities Act and section 5.2 of the

Electrical Power Control Act, 1994, the Lieutenant-Governor in Council hereby

exempts Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro from sections 54 and 55 of the Public

Utilities Act and section 3 of the Electrical Power Control Act, 1994, and its statutory

obligation to supply electrical energy, on a firm basis only, to any applicant that is

involved in computing or data processing load related to cryptocurrency mining, such

as Bitcoin mining, blockchain processing, proof of work crypto mining, or other

cryptographic uses applied to blockchains, subject to the following:

a) if energy and capacity become available that is surplus to Newfoundland and

Labrador Hydro’s forecast reliability and resource adequacy requirements and

sufficient to provide service to the customers defined above, such customers can

be supplied temporary firm service, on the condition that the provision of such

service would not require new generation infrastructure in order to maintain

system reliability; and

b) the exemption shall not apply to cryptocurrency mining applicants who were

approved for and receiving service as a cryptocurrency mining customer at the

time of the issuance of this Order in Council, as long as they continue to receive

that service, and that any changes to such a customer’s service, including an

increase in connected load, would result in the customer being subject to the

exemption.