6. Debate on the Climate Change, Environment and Rural Affairs Committee Annual report: 'The Welsh Government's progress on climate change mitigation'

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 4:41 pm on 26 September 2018.

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Photo of Nick Ramsay Nick Ramsay Conservative 4:41, 26 September 2018

Thank you. I agree with many of the points that Caroline Jones made about the need to move to electric vehicles, but would you agree with me that that electricity has to be made somewhere, and if we simply move away from diesel and petrol to electric charging, that charging is coming from fossil fuels and, actually, that can in the long run be less efficient than modern petrol engines? So, we need to ensure that there's local renewable electricity generation that isn't being lost along an inefficient national grid.