[ErikCorry]

The problem is they are treating it as a free market issue with hourly auctions, but the 'free market' system ignores transmission. So the windmills can sell cheap electricity in the auctions that can't be delivered to anybody who needs it. Then after the auction you have to pay the windmill operators to switch off the excess production.

The OP linked site lists one of the solutions as "Make energy cheaper where supply is strong." This sounds obvious, but UK (and German) politicians don't want to do it, so we continue to get this dysfunctional system.

[veltas]

Not that obvious when some tax payers will pay for new energy infrastructure and then also watch their prices go up because it wasn't built near them.

[ErikCorry]

You mess with the markets at your peril. If you pay people to produce electricity that can't be consumed then you will waste a lot of money.

If the transmission capacity is limited you need to expose that signal to the market, not attempt to hide it.