City’s search for new green energy sites

A NEW search for potential wind and solar farm sites should take place in Swansea as part of a drive to increase renewable energy production, a report said.

- RICHARD YOULE Senior local democracy reporter

(BEN CURTIS)

The Swansea local area energy plan, as it’s known, also sets out proposals to decarbonise housing, transport and industry to make them less polluting.

The main aim of the plan is for the county to have “net zero” energy system by 2050, which means no additional greenhouse gas emissions being added.

The plan has been endorsed by First Minister Eluned Morgan along with ones for Neath Port Talbot, Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire.

The Swansea document said the ambition should be for wind energy production to more than quadruple between now and 2050 and for solar energy to soar twelve-fold. That would mean more wind farms, solar farms and rooftop solar panels.