'Swansea Bay City Region: A Renewable Energy Future’

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:58 pm on 26 June 2018.

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Photo of Carwyn Jones Carwyn Jones Labour 1:58, 26 June 2018

Yes, but we still wouldn't control the market. That's the issue—the GB energy market. We need to have a Government in London that sees renewable energy as important and is willing to make the investments in renewable energy that are going to be needed for the future. That is not the case at the moment. What we've seen over the years are solar panels having their subsidies removed, the same for onshore wind, and now what we have is a situation where the UK Government has limited itself to a small number of ways of generating energy. They need to be more expansive than that, and be far bolder in terms of supporting projects like the tidal lagoon.