If Plaid Cymru were to win the election to the Senedd in May, they would establish a “strong presumption in favour of undergrounding” and the use of wooden poles where necessary, as Wales transitions to a modern, green energy system, banning steel pylons for any line of 132kv or below.
The party also notes that one of the first priorities of a Plaid Cymru government would be to draw up a National Energy Strategy and to ‘keep energy and profits created in Wales in our communities’.
In addition to that, a Plaid Cymru government would:
- Ensure that applications that will have a cumulative impact (including the associated infrastructure) across all Developments of National Significance (DAC) for large onshore wind farms are managed and fully considered.
- Require a minimum share of local or community ownership of between 15 and 25%, which corresponds to the local benefit model, sovereign wealth payment, or an equivalent method of obtaining benefits for the community for all projects over 10 MW, as one of the key conditions of permission.
- Giving incentives or other financial support to develop energy led and owned by the community or the Welsh Government.
- Extending permitted development to give households, farms and businesses more flexibility to install small wind turbines, small solar panels on roofs and on the ground, batteries and heat pumps, while at the same time protecting amenities, heritage and safety.
- Amend the relevant regulations so that all new dwellings and major refurbishment developments install solar on the roof which will meet the property’s annual demand for energy unless it can be clearly demonstrated that this is not practical.
- Issue an immediate Ministerial Interim Planning Policy Statement establishing a clear presumption in favour of undergrounding 11-132 kV lines in Wales, with overhead alternatives permitted only where overhead installation is via low wooden poles or equivalent, less intrusive infrastructure. In the case of 11-132 kV lines, larger steel lattice pylons will not be permitted.
Cefin Campbell, the candidate at the top of Plaid Cymru’s list in Sir Gaerfyrddin for next year’s Senedd election, said:
“I am very proud that Plaid Cymru is at the forefront of supporting our communities and working to keep energy and profits created in Wales in our communities so that we move away from an extractive economy model which has been so damaging to Wales over the centuries’.
“Our position will be clear if we have the privilege of being elected in May that we will not allow pylons to be erected along our valleys to please capitalist companies, and any energy project must take place with the joint idea of communities and ideally under local ownership or Welsh Government ownership.”
The true colours of Plaid Cymru and now its members are even supporting paedophile Huw Edwards. Vote them out people.
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Dont vote for this rubbish
Anything to get a vote. Perhaps we should cut the electricity to these idiots.
They’ll want to put wind turbines up all over the country instead 😡😡😡
Vote Plaid 🏴
CLIMATE SCAM IS AN ABSOLUTE DISGRACE AND PLAID SUPPORTS THIS MADNESS! WALES WILL GENERATE THREE TIMES WHAT WE NEED AND IT GOES TO ENGLAND. SO WHY DESTROY THE WELSH COUNTRY SIDE? VOTE REFORM UK
John Wynne Hopkins Most of the Reform politicians are failed Tories who have defected to Reform.
VOTE REFORM UK
John Wynne Hopkins only a complete fool would vote for Reform.
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John Wynne Hopkins Yay, vote for the guy who’s brexit is costing us billions a year, has his head up Putin’s arse and is a fucking Nazi. where’s your humanity.
You mite as well vote Labour and look at what they done for 26years. 3rd world Wales
Peter Clegg since when has Chester been in Wales not your business
Alan John James I live Wales.
Plied Cymru, Liebour. 2 cheeks one arse.
Pedro-Helen Gordon and the hole between the two cheeks are Retard Uk….full of sh1t
Climate change deniers out in force
Rubbish comment grow up
Sounds just like Starmer, opposed it before elections, support it after elections.
Will agree anything to grab power and then back to the Liebor policies that they have always supported and condem Wales to poverty.
“All Things to All Men”
Who do you think will be expected to pay the extra ‘billions’ needed ? So will we have a Pylon tax if Plaid get in ,God forbid.
Michael Elias probably the company installing it, and I really doubt laying cables is a few billions pounds.
As the Westminster Government would be expected to pay it would cost ‘billions’ as it will be a UK project, but as there is no plans for this in the Labour manifesto it’s another Plaid pipe dream. Of course if they ever get to be the Welsh government and decide to go it alone it it would cost a minimum of £400m and when they trumpet having £17M an extra £400m is a different kettle of fish from a Labour Administration in Westminster. As most of these wind farms are on mountains or hills the logistical challenge of burying these extra high voltage cables at a safe depth in solid rock is no doubt impossible.
waste of our money this sended – I have to wait 7 months for a phyzio appt wife 4yrs for a hip and millions of our money going for them to stand up a yak allday – they cant do their job and provide services – get rid#
Is there a election coming up soon 🤔
Get them out
The party for sanctuary in Wales that’s plaid and Labour together they will bring Wales down further
Geoffrey Fleming I can only assume you’re against Ukrainians being in Wales and want to send them back to Russian occupied Ukraine. 85% of the Nation of Sanctuary funding goes to supporting Ukrainians.
I am all for genuine asylum seekers but I don’t want our economy to go bankrupt we can’t put the world on U.K. benefits
No im against scroungers
Geoffrey Fleming after what has happened in Australia they might needvto revisit their ideas opinions and decision making of incoming races.
Ok, opposition to Pylons. So what’s the answer? Put the wires underground? Which will cause FOTE to create, and national parks, local authorities. I’d like to come off grid, yet they wouldn’t allow you to put up a wind turbine in your garden.
Elgar Thomas Reform are desperate now they’re the Tories MK2. Vote Reform and you let the Tories back in which would be a fate worse than death.
Well done Plaid.
They want wind turbines instead ffs
Smoke and mirrors or more commonly known as lies and BS
Whoever votes for these idiots are thick as shit
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