Power Off

I walked into the power station where I work today and was greeted with the news that we are closing down for good, the National grid decided we were not needed to supply electricity over this winter, and didn't need to be available for emergencies, which means no cash coming in while still having to pay over £500,000 a month in business rates plus staffing costs.
Most of the workers will be gone within weeks, (as I work through a contract company I might survive until the end of the year?).
The demolition crews are already being briefed, and our disconnection from the gas supplies are being arranged as I write
So a 20 year old clean modern gas fired power station which can produce 1000 MW of power is deemed to be surplus to requirements?

Imagine my surprise that the first news story I heard today was that there was a risk of blackouts this winter due to a lack of available generating capacity (see picture).

Seems almost comical if it wasn't such bad news for me and my workmates.
So I'm going to have listen to all manner of "experts" on the news tonight, telling us that we would all have to start turning off our lights to save energy.
Others will be saying we need to start building new power stations to cope with demand, or we should all have windmills and solar panels in our back gardens.
No doubt it will be an excuse for the energy companies to put up the prices again.

Meanwhile there are many power stations all over the country just sitting there doing nothing hoping for the occasional call to generate in the hope of making enough money to at least pay part of their huge business rates.
In reality there is already more than enough capacity available in this country, many stations are sitting moth-balled due to lack of demand but could be back online in a few weeks, a lot of the available wind power is not being used at the moment for financial reasons, also we have the back up of importing through the continental inter-connectors.

The energy companies would like us all to believe we just don't have the resources.
The reasons for this I'm sure you can hazard a guess?