Disagreed on both: Demonstrably pricing already technically works in many hourly priced markets in face of difficult conditions - the swings are not that fast

Disagreed on both: Demonstrably pricing already technically works in many hourly priced markets in face of difficult conditions - the swings are not that fast and the time quantum can technically be made much smaller still, there is no fundamental signal propagation speed bottleneck in sight. Quotas yield cutoffs only if you exceed your quota, so you would still get power constantly for light loads unless you err by blowing your quota. This is far better than getting blackouts.