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this is no longer true anymore since brexit. Electricity on spot market no longer has the same price in the whole country, it depends on which exchange you trade. this has been forbidden in the EU for a long time. There are more things that broke after brexit, hence the market coupling algorithm is much less efficient these days for the UK.
it is very possible that such generators are commissioned by a TSO to keep running for grid stability, such as must runs and/or redispatch actions. In essence what you are describing is very much happening, at least on the continent where I am based.
You mention renewables and especially solar as a contributing factor to these negative prices when combined with capacity constraints. Can you explain how this works?
A PV installation can easily start and stop production as long as the sun is shining, right? Then it seems like PV producers should bid to produce as much as possible whenever the price is positive, and not produce anything whenever the price is negative. Is this how they operate, and if so, how does this contribute to negative prices and not just to bringing the price towards 0?
Certainly for wind operators in the UK, there is a "contract for difference" payment process such that they are not paid the spot price. Instead they're paid a guaranteed price within a range (i.e. the difference between the spot price and a benchmark). And there will be an agreement in place that if they're not allowed to export this power they will be paid for "curtailment".
