Solution section
Critiques
Open questions, objections and unresolved design issues.
Critiques
Key questions include:
- Does a national price remain appropriate when network constraints become increasingly important?
- Does separating commercial clearing from physical feasibility create avoidable redispatch?
- Are too many requirements handled through bolt-on mechanisms?
- Can consumers understand and respond coherently to multiple overlapping signals?
- Does the architecture scale well to millions of controllable DER assets?
- Are investment incentives coherent across energy, capacity, CfDs and network charging?
- How should fairness be handled when access to flexibility and dynamic pricing is unequal?
The architecture's strength is evolutionary pragmatism; the corresponding risk is increasing institutional complexity.