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Other regulated commodity markets have what is called a «reasonability limit» avoid this exact kind of scenario. It is very concerning that the exchange didnt have any automated alerts that could trigger for example a phone call to verify that the order is correct.
My mistake! Assumed all Nordic countries were the same
It is an auction and everyone pays the same price. During the afternoon tomorrow every household in Finland will be paid significantly for their power usage unless they have a fixed price agreement, which is not that common
They cannot produce that amount of power and needs to buy it back on the secondary market. Will likely cost around 100Meur.
If you charge a 100kwh Tesla in Finland tomorrow you will be paid 50 euro, which is kind of extreme
Very strange that no one noticed this error as it was ~60% of Finlands average daily electricity consumption
If you are serious about making beautiful figures in latex, I would seriously recommend using tikz and pgf-plots. It is quite easy to automatically generate tikz-code from python (after all it is supposed to be read and written by humans) and all aspects of the figure can easily be customized. I have been quite successful in generating automated reports with pretty and easily readable figures using tikz and pgf.

If anyone is interested I have uploaded a sample script for generating XY-plots from two numpy lists to github. The code is by no means very good, but I just wanted to share in case anyone wants to try this approach.

https://github.com/sigurdjs/python-tikz