But that is as matters stand

A sign of the times and possibly the end of a fantasy.  From Coal mine demolishes neighboring wind farm to boost country's energy supply, drawing ire of climate activists by Lawrence Richard.  The subheading is The German energy giant RWE admits the situation appears to be 'paradoxical'.  Nothing concentrates the mind on reality like a reality about to be suffered good and hard.

Despite three decades of engineers and economists warnings about the unreliability and expense of renewable energy as an integral strategy of the totalitarian approach to anthropogenic global warming, governments have blithely pursued the chimera of clean renewables without pursuing the only clean energy which works, nuclear power.  

From the article.

A German energy company is dismantling a wind farm to allow for an adjacent coal mine to expand its operations, officials said. 

The German coal mine Garzweiler, operated by energy company RWE, admits the situation appears to be "paradoxical" — sacrificing one energy source for another — but defended the decision as necessary to strengthen supplies amid the ongoing energy crisis, Oilprice.com reported. 

"We realize this comes across as paradoxical," RWE spokesperson Guido Steffen said in a statement. "But that is as matters stand."

Indeed.  That is as matters stand.  Reality is what it is.