The birthplace of the Industrial Revolution bids goodbye to coal. Can Asia follow suit?

Britain just achieved a remarkable milestone. On Sept 30, the country’s last coal-fired power station

ceased operations.

It marked the end of an era of producing power from a fuel that underpinned the Industrial Revolution and changed Britain, and the world, forever. Britain also built the world’s first coal-fired power station in 1882, the Edison Electric Light Station in London.

Now the nation is embracing another energy revolution – green power. In a decade, coal has gone from generating nearly 40 per cent of the nation’s electricity to zero as renewable energy investment surged.