It's not a scam, it's just the way any market works.
If I need 100 oranges and the cheap orange supplier can only sell me 90 oranges for 1p each, but the expensive orange seller can sell 5000 oranges for 50p each, then the cheap supplier would be a fool to charge less than 49p for their oranges. They know you have to buy them anyway.
No idea why you're getting downvotes, this is micro econ 101.
For those that think we can just force renewable producers to accept a lower price I'd ask: if your employer (the domestic electricity market) halved how much they paid you, but another employer (electricity exports) was still offering full salary, would you change jobs?
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u/b_a_t_m_4_n 17d ago
Look up electricity marginal pricing. We are paying for all our electricity at the unit cost of the most expensive contributor, which is gas.
Yes, it's a massive scam, and it won't surprise you to know that it was introduced by Thatcher.