{"id":628095,"date":"2026-07-12T09:53:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T09:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/12\/cambridge-study-puts-ethereum-near-the-lower-end-of-pos-energy-intensity\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T09:53:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T09:53:36","slug":"cambridge-study-puts-ethereum-near-the-lower-end-of-pos-energy-intensity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/12\/cambridge-study-puts-ethereum-near-the-lower-end-of-pos-energy-intensity\/","title":{"rendered":"Cambridge study puts Ethereum near the lower end of PoS energy intensity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-images.ctmedia.io\/media\/article-covers\/hi-germanys-blockchain-solution-hopes-to-remedy-energy-sector-limitations.jpg\" alt=\"Cambridge study puts Ethereum near the lower end of PoS energy intensity\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cambridge estimated that Ethereum consumes 7.87 GWh annually and has the second-lowest market-value-adjusted energy intensity among the PoS networks studied.<\/p>\n<p>A new Cambridge study placed Ethereum near the lower end of energy intensity among major proof-of-stake (PoS) blockchains, although the network still used more electricity overall than most of the PoS networks studied.<\/p>\n<p>The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jbs.cam.ac.uk\/faculty-research\/centres\/alternative-finance\/publications\/ethereum-after-the-merge-a-change-in-power\/\">estimated<\/a> that Ethereum consumes about 7.87 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of electricity annually. When adjusted for market value, the network used roughly 33 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per $1 million, the second-lowest figure among the proof-of-stake networks assessed, behind BNB Chain.<\/p>\n<p>Solana used the most electricity among the PoS networks studied, at about 13.48 GWh per year. Its energy intensity was roughly 283 kWh per $1 million of market value, around 8.5 times Ethereum\u2019s, while the networks in the comparison consumed about 38 GWh combined.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/ethereum-pos-energy-intensity-cambridge-study\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cambridge estimated that Ethereum consumes 7.87 GWh annually and has the second-lowest market-value-adjusted energy intensity among the PoS networks studied. A new Cambridge study placed Ethereum near the lower end of energy intensity among major proof-of-stake (PoS) blockchains, although the network still used more electricity overall than most of the PoS networks studied. The Cambridge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":628096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-628095","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}