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Does anyone know how the national grid pricing model works? I've never thought about it before, but we have various private electricity suppliers all feeding in to the same grid, and making big profits. Who decides the spot price?
The short version is it's an auction, retailers and large users bid against each other on the spot market. There's also stuff like futures contracts etc.