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📈 Merit-Order Dispatch — Electricity Spot Market

Interactive electricity spot-market simulator: drag the demand slider and watch generators dispatch cheapest-first in merit order, a sweeping demand line set the market clearing price, and inframarginal rent accrue to cheap generators paid the same uniform price.

Economics & Social Systems2DModerate60 FPS

⚙ Under the hood

Drag the demand slider on a live electricity spot market: generators from solar and nuclear to gas peakers dispatch cheapest-first in merit order, a sweeping demand line sets the uniform market clearing price at the cost of the last generator needed, and a live revenue readout shows cheap plants collecting inframarginal rent.

merit orderelectricity marketmarginal costclearing priceeconomicsenergy marketsdispatch

2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install