Link: https://www.rt.com/business/526698-depleted-gas-stocks-europe-coal/
European utilities using more coal as natural gas inventories unusually low for this time of the year due to a cold snap in late winter and early spring.. Use of coal for power generation has jumped by up to 15 percent, “Gas storage is so low now that Europe cannot afford to run extra power generation with the fuel,” Natural gas stockpiles are 25 percent below the five-year average.