Electricity
<<Is it still the case, as it used to be with "the pool", that at any given time, every power generator gets paid the same, and the price at that time is set by the most expensive supplier that Gridco are willing to buy from at that time?>>
No. That was replaced with the "New Electricity Trading Arrangements", aka NETA.
When the generators learned to game that system too, it was replaced with the "British Electricity Trading and Transmission Arrangements", aka BETTA.