This is actually FANTASTIC news people ! Think about it . Big Coal are adapting their business models into renewables because they even agree that times are changing and they need to adapt to survive . The admission by the fossil fuel companies that they need to move away from fossil fuel companies is absolutely huge . I know these companies are somewhat evil so to speak but can you imagine the huge changes to the world when BHP , Rio Tinto etc decide to throw their full weight behind renewable and mostly give up on fossil fuels ? Experts have been speaking about this for a while . Especially with the Republicans stance on this in the US and them taking power . It doesn ' t matter if they don ' t believe in renewables or cut subsidies . Renewables are getting cheaper and cheaper and eventually the fossil fuel companies will be forced to adapt to survive .