RE: Soaring energy prices becoming socially destabilizing.
The experience of the Yellow Vest protests in France (referring to the color of the vest protestors wore), are instructive in this regard. France is a generally left-leaning country. Despite that, a proposed fuel surtax in November 2018 to fund a renewable energy transition triggered such widespread civil unrest that French president Emmanuelle Macron rescinded it the following month.
RE: Possible Russian involvement with Europe’s Green Energy movement.
It may surprise you that NATO has accused Russian intelligence of avidly supporting the anti-fracking movements in Western Europe which has made it reliant on Russian gas shipments. The European Union’s domestic natural gas production has been in a rapid decline phase for years. This is in graphic contrast to the shale output boom in the U.S. that has not only made us natural gas self-sufficient but also an export powerhouse of liquified natural gas (LNG).