Hydro Quebec

MONTREAL—For Hydro-Quebec, the bitcoin boom may be too much of a good thing. Canada's biggest electric utility has been inundated with requests to supply electricity to cryptocurrency miners eager to set up shop in Quebec — more than it can deliver. Chief executive officer Eric Martel has “received ...

Canada's biggest electric utility has been inundated with requests to supply electricity to cryptocurrency miners eager to set up shop in Quebec — more than it can deliver. Chief executive officer Eric Martel has “received hundreds of applications” from such ventures in the past few weeks, which would need ...