An option for what is the question. To keep these people in power long enough for their patrons to rearrange their bets and suck out a bit more on the way out? Sure. To hold over until something else can come online? I don't know.

Poland has huge infrastructure for coal extraction though by the way. Germany itself has only been down since 2018. Then there's players like Greece (75% o their demand is satisfied by their own coal) who can be trivially outbid. There was Ukraine too, but, you know...