Fair, but hardly relevant in a western context— the push is to close coal-fired power plants in favour of gas and nuclear/solar/wind. No one's talking about a wood-fired power plant, much less pitching it as renewable.

In any case, Schellenberger makes this least-harm argument vigorously in Apocalypse Never, that communities in Africa and India where people are currently burning wood, coal, or even animal dung for heat and cooking must be upgraded as quickly as possible to gas-based infrastructure, and NGOs and celebrities wringing hands about "building new pipelines" to facilitate that as a stepping stone is ridiculous and counterproductive (and ultimately just leads to maintaining the status quo).