Pretty sure the pricing mechanism was cooked up by economists to encourage investment into renewables who will be making stonking profits right now.
Unlike gas plants...
It's always the renewables isnt it. They kill birds and give you ear cancer and don't even really work. Not like those superb fossil fuels that have no drawbacks at all.
Who wants to listen to experts when you can just create a crisis by ignoring them and then blame it on the experts you didn't listen to.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merit_order
> The historic methodology for economic dispatch was developed to manage fossil fuel burning power plants, relying on calculations involving the input/output characteristics of power stations.