“Thermal coal on the Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange rose by over 10% on Tuesday.
The floods further complicate China’s efforts to increase fuel supplies to ease its deepening energy crisis.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58879481
It would seem that as Natural Gas is so hard to come by, as economies start to “Pick Up Steam” as the pandemic eases, Bog Coal is back in strong demand, too.