It's even nearer dead than that small number implies. Much of that is from keeping the few coal plants idling on standby or tiny load for fast spin up, if the grid asks, with coal as source of last resort.

Two of the six plants we have left announced last month they wouldn't be bothering going to the 2025 coal elimination date, and will close in 2020. Leaves 4 I think.

Same month the lovely government approved a new deep coal mine in Cumbria. huh?