So more people can charge their EV's on brown coal, nice.
Put another way, the GP comment is a pretty damning comment about the failure of lawmakers to pass laws modernizing the electric grid. It doesn't really matter much if the fuel used to produce all of this electric energy happens to be worse and more destructive to the environment than gasoline.
When people refuse to have intellectually honest conversations about this, it dramatically undermines the stated objective and gives detractors legitimate evidence of bad faith dialog.
Improving the grid's mix is also very important, of course, but it's something that can be done in parallel or lagging of electrification. Improvements to the grid are amplified by electrification. When everything is electric, there's only one thing to focus on and it becomes electricity generation. But without this, improvements to the grid are much less impactful.
Also it's to be noted that grid scale non-renewable power plants are orders of magnitude more efficient than the same power sources at household scale.
That somewhere some government replaced wind with coal doesn't change this.
The most outraging piece to me, is the that in large part the push against modern safer nuclear energy production (that could have mitigated this situation) comes from the Green Party. All mentioned so far comes off political nature, so if your point is the grid is easier to change... i haven't seen a single fact pointing in that way.
There is also the engineering appreciation for reducing energy loss vs. pollution it creates; which low quality coal -> high voltage transmission -> EV is an insanely ineffective method all along. Any EV being charged by coal is a pathetic attempt of green wash.