Green Energy

A wind turbine located at the Welsh Assembly Government’s Aberystwyth offices, built in 2009 and costing £48,000 has been generating a monthly average of just £5 worth of electricity.

A film showing life for families building a home in a Pembrokeshire eco village is being premiered at cinemas.

Residents won planning permission in 2009 to build a community of nine smallholdings at Glandwr designed to be low impact and self-sufficient.

Plans to build 23 new wind farms and an infrastructure of pylons to support them are in danger of ripping some Montgomeryshire communities apart, say those who support the developments.

Protests have been staged against three controversial wind farm applications as they were discussed by councillors in Powys.

The applications for Llanbrynmair, Llaithdu and Llandinam will be decided by the UK government because they are set to generate over 50 megawatts.

The council cabinet decided to formally oppose all three planning applications.

RenewableUK Cymru said the decision was a blow to many businesses that stood to benefit from the developments.

Protests are being staged against three controversial wind farm applications which are being discussed by councillors in Powys.

The applications for Llanbrynmair, Llaithdu and Llandinam will be decided by the UK government because they are set to generate over 50 megawatts.

Powys council is debating the plans as a statutory consultee at a meeting being broadcast on the web.

Campaigners are demonstrating outside the meeting in Llandrindod Wells.

Opposition to wind farms has grown in Powys since plans were announced to build a 19-acre electricity sub-station in the county.

The leader of Plaid Cymru expects party candidates in next year’s council election on Anglesey to oppose a new nuclear power station.

Leanne Wood said Plaid will work to create jobs on the island but preferred renewable technologies over nuclear.

It puts her at odds with ex-party leader and local AM Ieuan Wyn Jones, who supports Wylfa B.

Welsh Secretary David Jones also says a future for Wylfa is “critical” to the economy.

The preferred site for a controversial electricity substation in Powys and the route for over 100 high voltage pylons will be unveiled later.

Opponents say the substation and the pylons, to service wind farms, will disfigure the countryside.

Up to 300 people have turned out for a protest march against wind farms on Anglesey.

Campaign group Anglesey Against Wind Turbines says there are plans for two “industrial scale” wind turbine on the edge of the village of Llanddona.

Wales will “industrialise” some of its most sensitive beauty spots with turbines dwarfing the nation’s tallest buildings if bids for 25 new wind farms are backed, say protestors. The bids are being made by green energy …