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Ethiopia: industrial power price and what 1 kW earns

Ethiopia has a special electricity tariff just for data mining, set by the state power company. It went from a flat rate to time-of-use pricing in December 2025.

The price

• Data mining tariff, daily average (July 2026 to July 2027): $0.0500/kWh

This figure includes VAT. Rates are a bit lower off-peak and higher from 6 PM to 10 PM, and an availability-based adjustment changes the bill when the utility curtails. The average steps up again to 6.5 cents in July 2027.

What 1 kW earns at this price

At the first price above, GPU rental nets more per kW: $0.34 a day mining vs $17.22 renting GPUs, after power and hardware.

At $0.0500/kWh

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Per 1 kW of facility power, using the mine vs AI calculator's default inputs: Antminer S21 XP efficiency (13.5 J/TH) at $15.81/TH, 2% pool fee, 3-year ASIC life; H100 GPUs at 1000 W, $2.69/GPU-hour, 70% utilization, $36,125 per GPU over 4 years; PUE 1.1. Hardware and rental figures are sourced in the methodology. Worked out at 100 kW and divided by 100, because GPUs come in whole units. No taxes or hosting fees. Hashprice $0.0381 per TH/s per day, computed October 21, 2026 at 20:50 UTC from the mempool.space API: BTC $84,647, difficulty 140.58 T, average reward 3.1420 BTC per block over the last 144 blocks.

Sources

• Addis Standard: Reports Ethiopian Electric Power's letter of October 27, 2025: a time-of-use tariff for data mining starting December 1, 2025, with a daily average of 4 US cents/kWh until July 2026, 5 cents the following year and 6.5 cents from July 2027 to July 2028, including 15% VAT and a 0.5% regulatory fee. Accessed October 21, 2026.
• FSX Business: Same tariff, period by period: from July 8, 2026 to July 7, 2027 peak 6.3, shoulder 5.55 and off-peak 4.65 US cents/kWh. Accessed October 21, 2026.

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