Germany has a lot of brown coal and desire to use it. However, it's not politically trendy. By heavily investing in renewables while closing down nuclear power plants they know they'll have to be relying on coal for decades into the future out of "necessity" and thus they ensure the survival of their brown coal mining business.

Kind of the same how oil companies shill for windmills and solar while telling everyone that nuclear power is very, very dangerous, because they know that windmills and solar aren't a solution and all countries that rely on such tech will be dependent on oil and gas.

Renewables aren't really seen as a threat to fossil fuels, unlike nuclear power.