The government confirmed plans to expand renewables, so that by 2030 at least 80% of generation will be emissions-free. It further confirmed plans to shut down coal-fired power stations by 2038.

While actually sabotaging renewables left and right, so they can -with very sad faces of course- announce in 2030 that they have totally missed the goal so it obviously wasn’t possible. Then they will repeat the same farce with coal 8 years later.

Environmentalists predicted costs could rise further and said battery technology was being neglected as an alternative

Not neglceted but intentionally blocked. There exist a lot more applications for connecting batteries to the grid than are required for the next decade (all privately financed so from the state planing perspective for free…). But they simply won’t happen as the grid providers are tightly linked with power producers that make their money from fossil fuels. In fact the CEO of one of the best in terms of blockage where applications are literally delayed by years was recently rewarded with a job as Minister of Economy and Energy by those corrupt lying morons.

while power generators fossil fuel heavy energy companies welcomed the legislation as a pragmatic compromise (the ones with actual investments in renewables are loudly criticising the move but somehow don’t exist in mostly conservative-controlled media reports).

Fixed that statement.

PS: Oh, and those gas power plants are needed so urgently *cough* that this government also wasted a year by completely scrapping the existing plans for a new one, only to realize that they won’t get the EU agreements for the insane numbers they would have liked to build and going back to the original plan… minus the alleged hydrogen-compatibility of course because failing the energy transition and burning fossil fuels forever is their actual plan.