[toomuchtodo]

Not sure if its the same for the Danes, but in the US coal is being displaced by natural gas, which can be throttled quickly for grid demand response (and is cleaner, and releases drastically less CO2 per unit of power generated, and can be moved across the country quicker via pipeline vs trains).

[crdoconnor]

The cleanliness of natural gas is significantly overstated. Fracking is a dirty business.