Grid-connected mining is a specific Mining coordinate in the Bitcoin knowledge graph. In practical terms, it identifies the subject described here: Mining supplied through an electrical grid, potentially under wholesale, retail or interruptible-load arrangements. This definition is narrower than promotional usage and should be read together with the implementation, date and evidence attached to the entry.
Grid-connected mining is best understood as part of a system rather than as an isolated definition. Its related coordinates show the mechanisms, incentives and historical records that give the term practical meaning.
Grid-connected mining sits between protocol rules, economic incentives and software operated by independent participants. In Bitcoin, no component is authoritative by itself: miners propose history, fully validating nodes enforce validity, and users decide which rules and software they accept.
Understanding Grid-connected mining helps distinguish a verifiable Bitcoin mechanism or historical record from slogans, products and market narratives.
Primary or authoritative records make these details checkable: grid-connected mining purchases electricity through a utility, market or bilateral contract and may offer interruptible load, demand response or ancillary-service capability depending on local rules and metering. They should be verified before using the coordinate in analysis.
The practical limit is: connection to a grid does not establish energy source, emissions or system benefit; marginal generation, congestion, curtailment baseline, subsidies, transmission cost and local reliability require location-specific evidence. A definition, office, chart pattern or published claim is not by itself a prediction or Bitcoin consensus rule.
For the clearest picture, read this entry together with Mining curtailment, Demand Response Mining, Power purchase agreement, Bitcoin. The reverse links also lead from Behind-the-meter mining, Power purchase agreement.