Solar power will kill coal faster than you think.

Solar power, once so costly it only made economic sense in spaceships, is becoming cheap enough that it will push coal and even natural-gas plants out of business faster than previously forecast.

Good for the planet: Green energy such as solar power is getting cheaper. 

That's the conclusion of a Bloomberg New Energy Finance outlook for how fuel and electricity markets will evolve by 2040.

Read the story in the Melbourne Age - “Solar power will kill coal faster than you think.”