Why does gas set the price, even when coal is cheaper?
The single most counterintuitive thing about how Great Britain prices electricity — and the idea the whole game is built around. A worked example, start to finish.
The GridTradingDesk blog
Short, plain-English explainers on how UK electricity pricing actually works — each one tied to a mechanic you can go try in the game.
Anatomy of a cold snap: what actually happens to the grid
Why a few cold days send both demand and prices up together, what a reserve margin is, and why the grid operator starts paying almost anything to keep the lights on.
What a battery actually earns: arbitrage, not generation
A grid-scale battery never creates a single watt. Here's what it's actually being paid for, and why timing matters more than capacity.
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