SP Sells Gas Plant to Drax. So What?

Edie has carried a story that Scottish Power has sold its gas generation plant to Drax. This process has been accompanied with a certain amount of ballyhoo:-

Greenpeece UK, for instance:
“Big utilities across Europe have been shedding their dirty fossil fuel infrastructure because it makes economic and environmental sense.”

This is nonsense. All that has happened is that the deck chairs on the Titanic have been rearranged. As Edie's piece points out, there has been no change in the UK's power plant portfolio; and SP will still be purchasing "brown" electricity.

The Greenpeace statement does a disservice to the renewables cause. They should stick to applauding genuine shifts in the nation's generating capacity.