May 2016 was a historic month for alternative power in the UK. For the first time since the country's first steam-driven public power station was opened at the Holborn Viaduct in 1882, Britain was powered without the use of coal - albeit for a few short hours.
The global energy market is currently undergoing some exciting changes; in 2015 worldwide carbon emissions were flat for the first time in 25 years, last month Portugal ran solely on renewable power for four days in a row and Heineken beer is now produced in the world's first carbon neutral brewery.
So are we nearing a tipping point in the global quest for clean energy production?
Shifts in the energy market