I’ve just had a look in the NGED Embedded Capacity Register and cannot find Cwmbetws, so they are not exporting power to the grid

From google maps it’s a dairy farm which will have a high demand for chillers

The solar panels are on half a shed roof, and they could have masses more

All in all it just looks like many farms around here with a “little” turbine for farm use, maybe 30 m high. Certainly nothing to give any expertise in renewables

This FoI is well worth a read, just to see exactly what the (previous) government had been briefed on in advance of wind farms being consented

https://www.gov.wales/atisn23303

There was an article in the CPRW magazine and this in Nation Cymru

https://nation.cymru/news/shocking-new-findings-about-threats-to-wales-peatlands/

NRW? I doubt they have thought about it. There isn’t that much potential for small scale hydro, only something like 60 MW in the whole of Wales, so it’ll never change things radically

NRW will do whatever government tells them to do (within the law), so there is no reason why they shouldn’t. There are masses of reasons against small scale hydro, but in the high number of very small places it’s possible we really should be doing it

Are you replying to something?

But do they want to? Or is ‘energy independence’ just a slogan to justify allowing foreign companies to profit from Wales rather than allowing Wales to profit?

I’d like to see that particular circle squared, an RNLI that selectively opts out on rescuing certain people at sea. That would be as political a statement as it’d be possible to make!

We can’t allow anti-woke, anti-globalist or conservative points of view to be exclusively hijacked by British Nationalist quislings like that windbag.

As I said to ‘Paz’, or whatever the oaf’s name is, on his clip, it’s a failure of his beloved MOD in allowing the situation to occur where the RNLI has to exercise its remit without prejudice.

With hindsight, perhaps I should have followed up with the question. Is the government directly, or indirectly, funding the RNLI?

That reply suggests the funding is given under a different column heading. Allowing money to be transferred to landing illegals. But UK gov’t can still hold up its hands and say they’re not directly funding the landing of illegals,