Plaid Cymru is advocating for the inclusion of an energy social tariff in the UK Government’s policy to address fuel poverty

Concerns arise in Wales as the flagship offshore wind project, Erebus, fails to secure contracts in the UK government’s renewable energy auction

Plaid Cymru has pledged to create a not-for-profit Welsh energy company to reduce gas and electricity bills for consumers. It believes energy bills are “needlessly high” despite Wales being an exporter of electricity. Its manifesto states it will use the profits from Wales’ abundant renewable resources to cut the cost of energy for consumers and […]

The news today that the Horizon nuclear project has been dropped by its owners RWE npower and E.ON has kicked up a storm in Wales where one of the planned plants was due to be built. Wylfa, near Anglesey, had agreed a 3600MW Connection Agreement with the National Grid. Plaid Cymru, the National Party of […]

Plaid Cymru leader Elfyn Llwyd has reignited the fight for a fuel duty regulator to stop prices rising too much at the pump. A protest is taking place later today outside Westminster to campaign for cuts fuel duty on petrol and diesel. The price at the pumps soared to over £1.50 a litre this week. […]

A Plaid Cymru MP has said Government was wrongto cut the solar Feed-In Tariffs (FiT) rate beforethe consultation had closed. The consultation is running until this Friday, 23rd December but the changes were introduced last Monday, 12th December. Elfyn Llwyd MP said: “The UK Government is clearly neglecting its pledge to produce 15% of the […]

Wales is being “stripped bare of its natural resources for the benefit of England’s power needs”, according to Plaid Cymru. The party’s Westminster leader Elfyn Llwyd told the Plaid Cymru spring conference that ownership of Wales’ maritime renewable power resources is essential to the nation’s economic future. “The need to devolve power over our maritime […]

Plaid Cymru’s Treasury spokesman Jonathan Edwards today slammed “the complacency of Welsh MPs”, as 50% failed to turn up for a vote on fuel prices. Plaid Cymru and the SNP last night led a Westminster debate on how to tackle rising fuel prices. Both parties wanted the government to establish a fuel duty regulator. But […]

Plaid Cymru has slammed a government decision to leave Wales without a single electric vehicle charging point. This week, Westminster unveiled the regions which have successfully won funding for electric car points: the Midlands; Greater Manchester; East of England; Scotland and Northern Ireland. London, Milton Keynes and the North East of England already have charging […]

As energy price hikes from one of the ‘Big Six’ suppliers kicked in yesterday, a Welsh MP has slammed the increases. Scottish & Southern Energy raised its tariffs by 9.4% from yesterday. SSE is the parent company of Swalec, which supplies much of the electricity market in south Wales market. Plaid CymruMP Jonathan Edwards said […]