Restart of coal power in many European countries: brake of green energy transition?

Recently, due to the energy crisis caused by the shortage of natural gas, many European countries either announced the restart of coal-fired power units or declared an energy emergency. The governments of Germany, Italy, Austria and the Netherlands all said that coal-fired power generation could help Europe survive a crisis. The crisis has led to soaring natural gas prices and made it more difficult for the government to deal with inflation. Other foreign media pointed out that the European plan to phase out coal-fired power has been shelved indefinitely.

As a pioneer in the global green energy transition, the energy transition process of some major European economies has been "braked" from an objective level, and the pace of European energy transition development has been forced to slow down.