{"id":297416,"date":"2026-02-18T13:35:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T13:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/297416\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T13:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T13:35:07","slug":"plaid-promises-welsh-communities-share-of-renewable-energy-profits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/297416\/","title":{"rendered":"Plaid promises Welsh communities share of renewable energy profits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Plaid leader Rhun ap Iorwerth will tell an event hosted by energy non-profit organisation Community Energy Wales that his party would set up a national energy body for Wales that would be responsible for large-scale projects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Small to medium sized energy projects in Wales, between 10MW and 350MW, need permission from the Welsh government before they go ahead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Larger schemes are determined by the UK government, while smaller are dealt with locally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The politician will say that Plaid supports &#8220;renewable energy unequivocally just as we believe that the wellbeing of communities has to be at the heart of the Welsh government&#8217;s energy strategy&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ap Iorwerth is expected to say: &#8220;Done right, the green energy transition comes with major social and economic opportunities. I am clear that Welsh communities can and must benefit fully from Welsh renewables, and that includes a fair share of the profits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Ultimately, we think that increasing communities&#8217; share in the ownership of Welsh renewables is the best way of securing a higher level of reinvestment in those communities in the longer term.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Plaid Cymru&#8217;s announcement did not say how communities stakes will work, or which bodies would benefit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plaid leader Rhun ap Iorwerth will tell an event hosted by energy non-profit organisation Community Energy Wales that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[242,85,46,141],"class_list":["post-297416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}