The left has no understanding of the role of market prices in matching supply with demand. To haughty elitists, central planners are wiser than the unorganized mob of buyers and sellers. So it should not surprise us that when environmentalists muck up electricity pricing schemes to promote solar power, mischief ensues.The Bishop Hill Blog brings us news of the sort of scam that is fostered by setting an artificially high price for "green" power such as solar power, and forcing ratepayers to subsidize an inefficient producer. The following is a machine translation of a German-language Swiss news site reporting a solar power fraud in Spain:After press reports,  it was established during inspections that several solar power plants were generating current and feeding it into the net at night. To simulate a larger installation capacity, the operators connected diesel generators."This is just the tip of the iceberg," said one industry expert to the newspaper...(Read Full Post)