Germany's energy transition to green is arguably not a failure. Renewable energies manage to replace most of nuclear production in 15y while still reducing coal usage: https://energytransition.org/2018/01/german-energy-consumpti...
24 May 2022 16:36
> (Montel) The German government plans to allow a market return 10.4 GW of hard coal, lignite and oil-fired reserve capacity if a gas supply crunch threatens power supply security, Montel learned on Tuesday.
> The new rules are designed to use as little gas as possible in an emergency situation by replacing the generation from gas-fired power plants, a government document seen by Montel showed.
But maybe there's a catch about re-commissioning coal massively and still planing to reduce it on the long term.
They also plan to change some laws to speed up transition to renewable energies: https://www.bmwk.de/Redaktion/DE/Downloads/Energie/0406_uebe...
You can argue that renewable are not deployed fast enough in germany, and there are good arguments for that, but the article isn't about that.