I hadn’t planned this but you’re reading it because it illustrates what’s happening over much of Wales. Though this case is a bit of an oddity in that it’s official but there’s no info beyond the bare bones.
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LLANTEG
Our story focuses on the hamlet of Llanteg, Pembrokeshire; pinned in the centre of the map below. The reason for going there is that certain companies are planning a ‘Green Energy Park’ and a ‘400kV substation’.
How do I know? Well, someone sent me various documents from which I’ve extracted the panel you see below. It comes from the latest update of the Transmission Entry Capacity (TEC) register produced by the National Systems Energy Operator (NESO).
If you scroll down to the second sheet of the register you’ll see what I’ve clipped for you below. Both entries link to the – non-existent – ‘Llanteg 400kV Substation’.
The person who sent me this information keeps abreast of these matters, but this was all new to him.
I tried an internet search for this project, but turned up nothing apart from a vague reference to Community Energy in Pembrokeshire (CEP). Here’s the website, and here the Companies House entry.
Here’s the Llanteg village website.
As Llanteg is outside the national park I went to the council website and checked through planning applications. But drew a blank.
Next, I wrote to the council planning department, and here’s part of their reply:
I am having trouble locating any information regarding the two highlighted in your screenshot. Please can you provide a site map for me to investigate further?
Mmm. Clearly, the council knows nothing.
As I say, the only references I found to renewable energy were all small-scale, ‘community’-type ventures. But I suspect what we’re looking at is very commercial. I say that due to the names linked with the projects in the panel above.
So who are the companies named on the NESO document?
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LLANTEG GREEN ENERGY PARK
The ‘Green Energy Park’ is in the name of NP SPV30 Ltd. And that outfit’s been registered with Companies House since July 2023. One of a string of numbered companies, now up to 50. (Maybe more by the time you read this.)
One of those companies that converted into a named project was NP SPV 31 Ltd, which is now Gwyddelwern Energy Ltd. This being the name of a village on the A494 between Corwen and Rhuthun. So let’s detour briefly and look into it.
Ultimate ownership of this project is with:
Heading back down to Pembrokeshire, ultimate ownership of NP SPV30 Ltd, the Llanteg Green Energy Park project, rests, via Natpower UK Ltd, with Mr Fabrizio Zago, an Italian living in Monaco.
Looking at the directors for the Llanteg Green Energy Park project, we see two names; a British subject with an Italian name (Sommadossi) who I’m satisfied is an associate of Zago, and an American.
This American, Benjamin Aaron Ben Tre, took up 40 directorships on May 1 this year. All linked with Natpower and all using the same Mayfair address.
More interestingly, perhaps, Ben Tre was involved with Stefano Danilo Massimo Sommadossi in other companies a few years back. I would guess the reason these companies are listed separately is because the name is spelled Ben Tré.
Let’s start with Coincident Energy Ltd (10.02.2016 – 17.09.2019). No money ever went through the books, but then again, this company was controlled from the British Virgin Islands.
Next up in chronological order is Influence Power Ltd (10.02.2016 – 17.09.2019). Another company with nothing in the pot, and controlled by Coincident Energy.
The third company used as its address a flat overlooking the Thames in Wandsworth, presumably leased by Sommadossi, who was then still an Italian citizen.
The company was called QMobility Ltd (03.01.2020 – 21.12.2021). It began life with directors Sommadossi, Ben Tré, another Italian named Stefano Madeddu, and a second American by the name of Jonas Lauren Norr.
This is interesting. Norr seems to be based at Miami Beach. And an internet search suggests he founded a company called Ethos Investments. Which is the company Ben Tré’s Linkedin page says he’s still working for. Here’s Norr’s info from Linkedin.
Anyway, at the end of its brief life, despite filing no accounts, and apparently doing nothing, Sommadossi and Ben Tré had over ten million QMobility shares.
To conclude where we started this section, with Natpower, and after seeing names like Zago, Sommadossi, Madeddu, you will not be surprised to learn that this outfit is, to all intents and purposes, an Italian company.
Building a ‘Green Energy Park’ in Pembrokeshire.
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E R PROJECT DEVELOPMENT COMPANY LTD
I couldn’t find a website for this company, the one named in connection with the 400kV substation, but here’s the Companies House entry. It was Incorporated October 14, 2022. Based in Marlborough, Wiltshire
The two named directors are: Harry Marcus George Lopes, who’s British; and American Giovanni Rossario Maruca. When you flip to ‘significant control’ you see the name Eden Devco (UK) LLP.
There are 23 companies registered at this luxury holiday accommodation site, but Eden Devco seems to be the only one with assets. Though nothing in the most recent accounts explains these assets.
This company has Lopes and Maruca as members, with these two now rubbing shoulders with a couple of English aristos and some other interesting names.
Including two US companies, one in Florida, the other in New Jersey. It’s the one in New Jersey I wish to focus on, because a company with that name has cropped up on this blog before.
The name is Belltown Eden Ventures Corp. This company controls the voting rights over Eden Devco (UK) Ltd, and ultimately the Llanteg substation. And although giving a New Jersey address it’s governed by the laws of the State of Delaware. I assume that’s because Delaware is ‘business friendly’.
Belltown is also an investor in land destined for renewable energy projects. We target property with strong fundamentals and proximity to power infrastructure in our core markets.
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The other Belltown – in the form of Belltown Power of Bristol – is one of the three companies (we know of) waiting to desecrate the Elenydd, the unspoilt country east of Lampeter, which I wrote about in November 2023, in The Road To Hell.
Where I explained that when you trace back ownership of Belltown Power you reach Blackmead Infrastructure c/o The Foresight Group.
Establishing the ultimate ownership of Blackmead Infrastructure is not straightforward. The first step is easy enough, it’s Averon Park Ltd. But the Companies House entry for Averon Park shows no one with significant control.
Though a hell of a lot of shares have been allotted lately. While the latest confirmation statement from Averon Park (30.06.2025) tells us Foresight Fund Managers is in control.
Is that 1.56 billion shares, am I reading it right?
Foresight has an office in Cardiff, and recently appointed Phil Sampson to manage its £130 million Investment Fund for Wales. Aren’t you grateful?
Anyway, the long and winding road eventually takes us to Guernsey. And once you’re on that island, who knows who owns what?
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This is frustrating, but it looks as if there are two companies using the Belltown name. One in Bristol, with a windfarm project in the Elenydd, that traces to the USA; the other in Wiltshire, planning a substation in east Pembrokeshire, linked to the Foresight Group and Guernsey. Both in the ‘renewables’ and ‘natural capital’ rackets.
But there’s no obvious connection. Unless you know different?
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CONCLUSION
Once again, I find myself reporting companies from God knows where planning lucrative projects in Wales. What makes Llanteg perhaps unique is that no one seems to know anything about it!
Yet the fact that these entries are on the TEC register tells us an agreement has been reached. But who are the parties to the agreement? Have these companies done a deal with a private landowner? Or with the ‘Welsh Government’?
Are there any more Llantegs in the pipeline?
Whatever the answer to those questions, the map below explains why Llanteg is attractive. The black lines you see are carrying power from Pembroke power station, first to the cities and towns of the south, and then to England.
Which serves to remind us that – if the capacity is there – then any number of new projects can link up to transmission lines.
And that applies to the new lines planned to run through the Tywi and Teifi valleys on their way to Llandyfaelog; also the line north, then north east, and over the border to Lower Frankton in Shropshire.
In fact, I predict these new pylon runs will act as magnets for every eco-shyster between Bristol and the British Virgin Islands, Luxembourg and Lower Manhattan.
To the point where rural Wales, outside of national parks, will resemble a post-apocalyptic wasteland of steel and fibreglass, erratically producing electricity Wales doesn’t need, and providing us with no benefits whatsoever.
Interspersed of course with areas being ‘rewilded’ by charities and environmental groups that took corporate funding as payment for destroying Welsh farming and a way of life.
And all the while, the clown show in Corruption Bay, its propagandists and apologists, promise us ‘local ownership’ and ‘community benefits’.
Those lying bastards that have been selling us down the river for 26 years.
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© Royston Jones 2025
No ‘green’ solution?
“The problem with both visions of the future – and the spectrum of views between them – is a fundamental misunderstanding of the collapse which has begun to break over us. This is that each assumes the continuation of that part of industrial civilisation which is required to make their version of the future possible, even as the coming collapse wipes away ALL aspects of industrial civilisation. Most obviously, nobody had developed even an embryonic version of the renewable energy supply chain which is the essential first step to turning non-renewable renewable energy-harvesting technologies (NRREHTs) into the envisioned “renewables” upon which the promised techno-psychotic future is to be built. That is, until it is possible to mine the minerals, build the components, manufacture and transport the technologies without the use of fossil fuels at any stage in the process, then there is no such thing as “renewable energy” in the sense which the term is currently promoted. “
https://consciousnessofsheep.co.uk/2023/07/19/our-predicament-re-stated/?fbclid=IwAR3VlY4z4EV1kM6nTSv2FjmBAmvCEGjqqhiwuc1zQtSn3sIcGDGdqiNaN0Q
Yes. That’s the missing link and it’s a bloody big one. Arguable that smaller localised solutions would serve us better if all we are likely to need in future are basic energy and material needs. However our elites will still want to fly or travel by high speed trains etc and even Joe Public needs to indulge similarly. So digging out those precious rare earths and converting them into components, all of which is so often an energy intensive and wasteful activity with stacks of attendant pollution, needs re-engineering from first principles. Sadly too many of our decision makers are PPE or SocSci graduates from dodgy institutions who are trained to state goals without ever thinking about pathways.
Letter just sent to 8 Welsh papers.Bloggists need to use the Press!! No good just chatting amongst yourselves. You need to reach tens of thousands!
Dear Editor,
If readers care to check the finances of some of the many subsidiary companies linked to Bute Energy, which has 22 wind farms planned across Wales, on the Companies House web-site, they’ll find that some of them have huge losses running into tens of millions of pounds.The finances are not in the least impressive!!
Yet the public sector workers of several Welsh Local Authorities are investing their Pension Funds in Bute Energy!! Is this a wise thing to do? Do they even KNOW their money is there?
Furthermore, is it even ethical, being that these wind farm companies, [ around 20 of them] ,as subsidiaries of Bute Energy, are applying for Planning Permission and other council support, in the very same parts of Wales where council employees, and other public servants , are invested in the Bute Energy group. In other words, the Local Authority decision-makers have vested interests in Bute Energy and its connected pylon line company Green Gen Cymru!! Do those officers declare their interest?? Is all this even legal ?
By the way, if any of these wind energy companies are sold off to completely anonymous companies in Offshore Tax Havens over coming years………what exactly happens to the public pension funds of hundreds of Welsh Local Authority employees?
Yours faithfully,
L J Jenkins,
Llys-yr-ynys,
Ferwig,
Cardigan.
SA431PR
Can you please clalrify somthig. Where is the electric coming from? The Pylons or a future solar park, because one will be AC and the othe DC. Either way battreys need an inverter and it’s going to be huge. The hidden cost of solar. Domestic ones for the home or caravan, are expencive theses days, so howmuch will they cost.
As a retired Councillor I had the previous past duty to sit on County Planning Committees for 32 years. Those were main Development Control; Local Plan Policy making and Site Meetings. I retired in 2017.
In the early days we would also at Council level be consulted, as a leading consultee, but not the final decision maker, on various major regional and national developments that needed to be referred for final decision by Government via an appointed Inspector answerable to a Minister. Such occurences were rare and could include major applications to develope significant projects like an airport; harbour; new motorway and rail complexes or even a nuclear power station or anything posing of a regional impact.
With the advent of devolution via an Assembly and now a Senedd, controlled by the ruling party in Wales Government, things have changed considerably. Wales government now considers a whole new host of Developments of National Significance DNS that get decided now by an Inspector at the Planning and Environment Decisions Wales (PEDW) that manages and controls DNS casework relating to these developments and use of land in the public interest. The one Inspector makes his recomendations to just one Minister in Wales Government in the ruling political party, not to a cross party commitee that councils operate. In my personal opinion that’s not very democratic.
What bothers me most is how PEDW defines a DNS as to what exactly is ‘significant’ as I oulined above. Today all manner of proposed developments can be called ‘significant’. Let’s look at just one laughable example in renewable energy development proposals. A solar panel complex in a farm field of ten mega watt 10MW capacity is now considered to be a DNS. We all know that ‘capacity’ means maximum power in the most favourable brief mid day mid summer. Throughout the year solar energy at UK global latitude is only just 10% effective making and average annual output, of our example, to be just one mega watt or IMW which is one thousand kW or enough power to boil just 417 kitchen electric kettles. How on earth can that be considered to be of national significance? It is utterly farcical yet real in Wales today. There is a Senedd election next May. We need to challenge all candidates about this lack of democracy and control freakery in planning developments. Quote this example to them.
Ioan Richard, 4 Twynybedw, Clydach, Swansea, SA65EN
aptrefor@yahoo.co.uk date 6-11-25.
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Grid Electric Storage
an amateur compilation by Ioan Richard
4, Twynybedw, Clydach, Swansea SA6 5EN
aptrefor@yahoo.co.uk
My profile – Ioan Richard – I am aged 81 yrs of age and a long retired former City and County Councillor at Swansea after 42 years elected service – first as a Plaid Cymru member but latterly for most of the time as an Independent. I am not an academic, neither am I an engineer, but I do like to ask questions – often questions that others do not ask, but should ask. Having worked technically in both the coal and steel industries and latterly as a science teacher. As a Councillor I represented the large rural upland area Mawr Ward of Swansea, formerly a coal mining area, with many upland beef and sheep farms with a high percentage of Welsh speakers. Coal mining finished in Mawr in 1960 leaving most of the three villages’ resident population to become commuters to work in a whole variety of work places. In the past decades the Mawr area has become a desired rural housing area with consequent high property places. The uplands area of Mawr are vast stretches of open common grazing lands at a highest altitude of 1200 ft – these commons are mostly owned by the Family Trust of the Duke of Beaufort as Marcher Lord of Gower – called the Somerset Trust. The area is now a Strategic Search area designated by Wales Government Policy for large scale renewable energy projects for Solar Panels and Wind Turbines – not all welcome!
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Background Introduction
Ever since Wind Turbines were mooted for Mynydd y Gwair upland common in Mawr I took an interest and duty to study many aspects of renewable energy as relevant.
The various developers always quoted outputs as CAPACITY which really meant the maximum outputs possible for moments in time during the most favourable of conditions – e.g. for Wind – a strong steady wind not accounting for calm days or light breezes of even safety shut downs during strong gales. They never quoted any annual averages. Politicians at all levels and Planners and Journalists gullibly accepted those figures without question. Similarly with Solar – always quoting maximum capacity in conditions of a long cloudless mid day in July – never annual averages of short cloudy winter days and nightimes.
This distortion concealed the effectiveness with onshore wind being only 25% and offshore wind about 35% and solar at UK global latitude only just touching 10% effective.
The other ploy was to quote the number of homes that could be powered, cleverly again quoting maximum capacity as a gross exaggeration, made even far worse by using figures for housing only, fully knowing that whatever goes into the grid only a third powers homes – two thirds powers the needs of those homes for factories; shops; offices; hospitals; schools and other uses. So an example quotation of number of homes in reality could be reduced to just a twelfth for wind and a thirtieth for solar – dramatic lower differences. All swallowed by gullible politicians searching for the holy grail of net carbon zero.
Lastly all the variations in Wind Power meant the input was erratic and variable.
At first, for several years, this was all denied and swept under the carpet in corridors of power!
Finally it has been fully admitted in the latest rush to build massive ‘battery’ centres along the grid to cope with these variations – to release power when the wind does not blow or the sun does not shine to avoid blackouts – if they can cope in untested reality.
What nobody is querying now is :-
(a) how safe are these batteries from fire and self explosions (wind turbines frequently catch fire and disintegrate hurling debris – luckily in remote areas)?
(b) how much real capacity do these many hectares of monster batteries really hold – holding wind power from distant counties from the demand in cities? How long before there has to be load shedding in other words power cuts?
Nobody is asking for answers of truth in this mad rush to carbon zero.
Battery Capacity needs explaining – a very simple example here is a car battery in detail :-“Battery Capacity” is a measure (typically in Amp-hour) of the charge stored by the battery, and is determined by the mass of active material contained in the battery. The battery capacity represents the maximum amount of energy that can be extracted from the battery under certain specified conditions. However, the actual energy storage capabilities of the battery can vary significantly from the “nominal” rated capacity, as the battery capacity depends strongly on the age and past history of the battery, the charging or discharging regimes of the battery and the temperature.
Units of Battery Capacity: Ampere Hours
The energy stored in a battery, called the battery capacity, is measured in either watt-hours (Wh), kilowatt-hours (kWh), or ampere-hours (Ahr). The most common measure of battery capacity is Ah, defined as the number of hours for which a battery can provide a current equal to the discharge rate at the nominal voltage of the battery. The unit of Ah is commonly used when working with battery systems as the battery voltage will vary throughout the charging or discharging cycle. The Wh capacity can be approximated from the Ahr capacity by multiplying the AH capacity by the nominal (or, if known, time average) battery voltage. A more accurate approach takes into account the variation of voltage by integrating the AH capacity x V(t) over the time of the charging cycle. For example, a 12 volt battery with a capacity of 500 Ah battery allows energy storage of approximately 100 Ah x 12 V = 1,200 Wh or 1.2 KWh. However, because of the large impact from charging rates or temperatures, for practical or accurate analysis, additional information about the variation of battery capacity is provided by battery manufacturers.
Impact of Charging and Discharging Rate on CapacityThe charging/discharging rates affect the rated battery capacity. If the battery is being discharged very quickly (i.e., the discharge current is high), then the amount of energy that can be extracted from the battery is reduced and the battery capacity is lower. This is due to the fact the necessary components for the reaction to occur do not necessarily have enough time to either move to their necessary positions. The only a fraction of the total reactants are converted to other forms, and therefore the energy available is reduced. Alternately, is the battery is discharged at a very slow rate using a low current, more energy can be extracted from the battery and the battery capacity is higher. Therefore, the battery of capacity should include the charging/discharging rate. A common way of specifying battery capacity is to provide the battery capacity as a function of the time in which it takes to fully discharge the battery (note that in practice the battery often cannot be fully discharged).
Temperature effectThe temperature of a battery will also affect the energy that can be extracted from it. At higher temperatures, the battery capacity is typically higher than at lower temperatures. However, intentionally elevating battery temperature is not an effective method to increase battery capacity as this also decreases battery lifetime.
Age and history of battery effectThe age and history of the battery have a major impact on the capacity of a battery. Even when following manufacturers specifications on DOD, the battery capacity will stay at or close to its rated capacity for a limited number of charge/discharge cycles. The history of the battery has an additional impact on capacity in that if the battery has been taken below its maximum DOD, then battery capacity may be prematurely reduced and the rated number of charge/discharge cycles may not be available.
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Grid Mains Electric Storage is a whole new ‘ball game’ at this new huge scale.
The LINK below should help in the understanding of scale.
https://www.baywa-re.com/en/technologies/battery-energy-storage-systems?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=23009405684&gbraid=0AAAAA9RqT3goXqAgK2Pmh_fXBbcv5qW0b&gclid=Cj0KCQiAiKzIBhCOARIsAKpKLANC46oOz1sV7xmrIHrOAJBTWD-Tz6VCdgFH4aOdVn4rmroQBP3AYRYaAhncEALw_wcB#our-services
A very recent Planning Committee example – yesterday in Swansea 4-11-25
If you GOOGLE – SWANSEA COUNCIL PLANNING APPLICATIONS and enter in the SEARCH BOX the latest approval for a huge 65 acre farm field Grid Battery Complex on a Green Field site at Reference 2025 / 0855 /Ful you can read a full report of a Planning Report as recent as approved 4-11-25 which was discussed with few detailed questions – the CAPACITY was not queried or even reported.
The main Councillor concerns were of times of lorry deliveries for construction materials as being too early for 7.30 am should be 8.00am.
No real questions were asked about how it would work and cope during high capacity demand.
The honest Officers’ Report really portrayed the depth of new Wales Government Policies that are totally ‘rigged’ to favour devastation of rural countryside for anything ‘renewable’ – making refusal impossible.
A film of the Planning Committee is probably still online – GOOGLE Swansea Council Committees and click on PLANNING COMMITTEE 4th NOVEMBER and follow instructions to view them in action and their bland councillor contributions.
It is no longer a planning issue – it has to be a political fight – especially in the May 2026 elections to the Wales Senedd.
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It’s no longer just tilting at windmills. We have to unravel the corporate madness which disregards the science and commonsense of people like you.
This LETTER below in the WESTERN MAIL today from Lyn Jenkins of Cardigan is very relevant to what I wrote above. He nneds support in the Western Mail and on this Blog run by Jac :-
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Battery storage plans won’t meet demandWestern Mail 6 Nov 2025
I’M AMAZED at the lack of comment in the Welsh Press regarding the very large, 63-acre (around 35 football pitches) electrical storage system at Lletyscilp Farm, north of Swansea.
A company called Innova Renewables proposes “a maximum export capacity of 400MW”. Do people realise how puny that really is? It will achieve next to nothing.
Their report says “the UK will need more than 250,000MW of storage by 2050”. (If there are, by some miracle, 40 million electric vehicles by then, the UK will need far, far more than that.) It also says “as part of this, the UK Government has set an ambitious target of 30,000MW storage by 2030”.
Has anyone bothered to work out what all this means? In a very mild winter, the UK used 47,000MW at peak in 2024. It’s dark for 17 hours a day in mid-winter so nil at night, with very little generated in the daytime if it’s cloudy or wet. So UK winter solar generation is negligible.
On a cold ,windless winter’s night after 2030, there will be no renewable electricity from wind or solar. Without fossil fuel energy in the grid, we’ll be relying purely on Battery Energy Storage System (BESS). Meanwhile, if it’s cold, the UK will easily be using 55,000MW (without even considering an extra 150,000MW on hand for 30 million electric cars). In an hour, we will use 55,000MW hours. So ,even if the UK has a phenomenal planned total UK BESS battery storage of 30,000MW, it will only last just over half an hour. With no wind or sun to generate afresh, what electricity will there be to replenish the renewable BESS storage batteries? Zilch! There won’t be any, will there?
That’s why Innova says “400MW maximum” for Lletyscilp. As a small part of the UK’s planned future BESS capacity of 30,000MW it will all be used up in only 30 minutes. Then we’ll have nil electricity in the UK.
What exactly replenishes those vast 63 acres of Lletyscilp battery containers in the following hours, let alone days, without sunlight or wind in the UK? Please explain.
I’m afraid this enterprise could soon be dubbed Llety Skint! Why are our county councillors, Senedd members and MPs not posing these simple mathematical questions, instead of blindly accepting this green-wash, or is it hogwash?
LJ Jenkins Gwbert, Cardigan
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Hello, I love in Llanteg and haven’t heard anything is this still current news?
I’m glad to hear that, but where do you live?
Llanteg sorry, typo
I know. I was just being a smart-arse.
I’ve asked a few local important council folk and noone knows anything about it. How do I direct them to find more info
The local papers know about it. So make sure they start asking the right questions. Get your councillor to make enquiries. Also your MP and your Senedd member. Ask around in the area, maybe some private landowner has done a deal. Somebody must know something.
You LOVE in Llanteg?? Whereabouts? There could be people snooping on you!!
“Who let the dogs out?”
Read elsewhere that “UK taxpayers are spending £200m on a ‘carbon markets’ scheme to help some of the world’s biggest companies achieve net zero. Yet another piece of the hypocrisy of Labour’s international ‘greenwashing’ which transfers money from the public to international globalist corporates. Organised crime?
That’s virtue funding.
Gone beyond that. It’s now a big theft operation taking funds and assets such as land on a regular basis
But they persuade themselves that it’s all being done for the correct reasons. Right is on their side. Those who oppose them are evil.
That means you can lie and steal because you’re doing it for the right reasons. (Islam teaches the same thing.) If your opponents are fascists, then they must be silenced. Even permanently.
And if your heads are that fucked up then you’re putty in the hands of smarter people.
Does the idea of stealing for the right reasons tie into Zakat, one of the five pillars of Islam I wonder? Giving to the less fortunate, a la Robin Hood. That and usury being forbidden I’ve in the past invoked to point out that it has its good points as a faith.
The TEC is a mine for questions …
… like, where is “Mid Wales Connection Node A 400 kV”, when there are no 400 kV lines anywhere nearby
I’ve asked NESO, who directed me to NGET, who won’t say
Even when the substation location is known, like Wylfa, projects like the 600 MW BESS and hydrogen at Amlwch by Lightsource BP still puzzle. Lightsource refuse to say anything about it
Lightsource also have “Lightsource Berthlwyd”, a 240 MW solar project (about 1,000 acres) that has a connection agreement for Mid Wales Connection Node A
Surely the ‘Welsh Government’ is being kept abreast of these plans? If not, why not, and why aren’t they asking?
If they do know, they are not saying
400 kV is not devolved, so they actually have no involvement at all when someone asks NESO for a connection agreement
The Electricity Act 1989 means they will get an agreement, but it’s up to NGET exactly where, when and what it will cost. No need for the WG to be involved in any of that
Once NGET decide a new substation will come, other proposals come forward to connect there – mainly solar and BESS
If the solar is over 350 MW it’s not devolved, so no need to bother the WG. BESS is decided by the LPA, so again no need to bother the WG
With such a mix of responsibilities, and all regulated by Ofgem, it’s rare that a single area doesn’t have a dogs breakfast of (mis) coordination
Irrespective of the legislation, the WG should be demanding it be kept informed. So should local authorities. There’s more than a touch of colonialist arrogance to this whole system.
Very true. I suspect they are embarrassed at their lack of control, but that’s no excuse
They’ve got a big bureaucracy down the Bay; I’m sure they could get some minion to send an e-mail just asking, ‘Oi, wassup?‘.
Minions too busy working out their career plans to advance up the minion tree and balancing their holiday plans and sick leave entitlements. It’s really tough in that Bubble.
If I remember rightly, Mark Drakeford’s holiday pad (on which he manages to avoid paying tax because it’s a ‘chalet’ on a holiday park rather than a second home in its own right) is at Llanteglos, less than a mile down the road from downtown Llanteg, so it would be quite surprising if a project causing major disruption to the area were being planned for there.
But there’s obviously something afoot, and nothing would surprise me when it comes to Wales and renewable energy scams.
That is certainly worth remembering. Thank you, Stephen.
Wales is a dumping ground, not thought of by people outside of Wales. Welsh governing body must be getting something out of this.
Most of them are not smart enough to be corrupt. But they are stupid enough to want to go to conferences and the like and boast about how much Wales is doing to save the planet. Which translated means, how they’re allowing foreign companies to pillage and destroy our homeland.
One is being planned for Bynea. Huge area taking over a dairy farm that is currently there.
One at Llangyfelach for the same reason – closeness to the power line. With more lines, there’ll be more projects.
People are complaining now about the projects they know about, when the new lines go up there’ll be projects springing up everywhere.
Just think of all those well paid jobs being created…….. in some parallel universe dreamt up by likes of Milliband to feed the empty minds of all those adherents of the green gospels.
Not just Miliband. He has plenty of adherents and followers in Corruption Bay.
Agreed, but they are the dimwits dancing to his tune. If his multi £billions budget got trimmed to Zero ( now that’s a net zero goal worth going for!) they would have only peanuts to play with at the altar of the green gods. Just imagine a Bay regime with no turbine mania or gender confusion to obsess over. They might have to try some real work for a change.
But you must remember they’ve been dancing to this tune since long before we heard of Miliband. The key influence since the advent of devolution has been Jane Davidson. She left the Assembly in 2011 after authoring the Future Generations legislation, which lays the ground rules for ALL other legislation in Wales. She currently chairs Wales Net Zero 2035.
This piece tells us she was in early on this nonsense, attending the ‘Earth Summit’ in Rio in 1992. But why was she there? Who was she representing? As far as I can establish she was on Cardiff council and may have been acting as a researcher for Rhodri Morgan MP.
Link below to one minute video presentation
https://netzero2035.wales/2024/09/19/statement-huw-irranca-davies-ms-deputy-first-minister-and-cabinet-secretary-for-climate-change-and-rural-affairs-datganiad-huw-irranca-davies-as-y-dirprwy-brif-weinidog-ac-ysgrifennydd-y-cabinet/
H Irranca-Davies talks of the Wales Net Zero 2035 group as being “independent of government“, and in a sense he’s right. Because even when Jane Davidson was in the Assembly she never really represented her constituency of Pontypridd. She was always in politics to push the Globalist-Green agenda. And she’s still doing it.
To people like her Wales is just a laboratory in which to subjugate every aspect of our lives to her crazed ideas about a planet hurtling towards destruction. There are too many others in Welsh politics pushing this and associated nonsense. All to the detriment of the 95% that just wants a decent life.
All so-called “independent” regulators are not independent. They are funded by the industry they are meant to regulate. Ofwat funded by the water industry. Ofgem looking after the interests of the energy providers hence ever increasing power costs for the public. Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency [MHRA] funded by big pharma. This was obvious during the Covid era when experimental “vaccines” were authorised for emergency use generating billions in profit for big pharma. Is anyone aware of a truly independent regulator?
Nope.
You just wrote “As far as I can establish she was on Cardiff council and may have been acting as a researcher for Rhodri Morgan MP.” . I always thought she was Alun Michael’s associate researcher. Can anyone shed light on that.
She was also a teacher in Cardiff.
Certainly not a science teacher. What about her frequently used title as ‘Dr’? What topic did she research for her PhD? Does anyone know where / which University Library holds copy of this research thesis? Do others cite it? Also she is the only person in the UK, that I know of, that has used the given title ‘Emeritus Vice Chancellor’. Seemingly It was a title only used once before in the world to honour a lifelong retired Vice Chancellor of an Foreign University for a whole life service. Can anyone clarify exactly what is ‘Emeritus Vice Chancellor’ and how / who conferred it in Wales? She was also the ‘mother’ of the One Planet Planning System so enthusiastically followed by her successor Lesley Griffiths and her Brighton Fella. A charter for hippies and drop outs to create hovel homes from across Offa’s Dyke. Whilst local farmers’ children here cannot get permission to build a modest bungalow in their own field conforming to standard building regulations. A lot of questions – needing a lot of honest answers.
AI generated answer copied below.
The title of Vice-Chancellor Emeritus is conferred upon individuals who have retired from the position of Vice-Chancellor and have made significant contributions to the university through long and distinguished service in administration, teaching, research, and/or service. This title is typically awarded in perpetuity and is not remunerated. For example, Attila Brungs and Tony Blake were recognized as Vice-Chancellors Emeritus at the University of Technology Sydney in 2021 and 2018, respectively. The conferment of the title is generally made by the Vice-Chancellor following a formal recommendation process, often involving the relevant faculty or administrative body. The title may be granted upon retirement, and the individual may continue to be affiliated with the university, receiving certain privileges such as access to library resources, email, and invitations to university events, though they do not have voting rights in official meetings. The title may be revoked if the individual engages in behaviour that damages the university’s reputation or returns to paid employment in an academic or professional role.
I’d never heard of others having this ‘honour’ other than one foreigner. It must be very rare, but she is so exceptional. So what about that ‘Doctorate’ she uses? Any facts on that? Where is her research thesis held? Has her research detail been published and cited by other fellow academics?
I think it is an honorary doctorate. Again, AI generated answer below.
An honorary doctorate, also known as an honorary degree or “Doctor Honoris Causa,” is a prestigious academic award conferred by a university or institution to recognize an individual’s significant contributions to a specific field or to society at large, without requiring the usual academic requirements such as coursework, research, or examinations. It is a symbolic honour, not an earned academic qualification, and is typically awarded to individuals who have made exceptional impacts in areas like science, arts, business, public service, or philanthropy.
These degrees are often awarded during formal university ceremonies, where recipients may be invited to deliver a speech, and are usually listed under “awards” or “achievements” on a curriculum vitae rather than in the education section. The recipient may use the title “Dr.” before their name, but institutions generally advise against adopting the title in broader contexts to avoid misleading others about the nature of the award. To clarify the honorary status, the degree is often followed by “honoris causa,” “h.c.,” or “hon.” in parentheses.
Is this the one you are quoting above ?
https://www.insidermedia.com/news/wales/huge-energy-storage-system-site-on-more-than-63-acres-of-agricultural-land-in-swansea-set-to-move-forward?utm_medium=email&utm_source=swansea_sw_wales_newsletter&utm_campaign=top_story_article
That may be it. Felindre rather than Llangyfelach.
I just watched it on LINK to Swansea’s Planning Committee. It was approved (with only one vote against and only one abstained) otherwise it was totally supported by all the other Councillors of all parties all glowing over the renewable policies! Very few questions – approval given.
I hope others watched it. I did advise my contacts to watch it.