Extract from Wales Assembly: Plaid Cymru debate on establishing a publicly owned energy company - June 6

Thursday, 7 June 2018 08:01

Llyr Gruffydd AM:...We need to be much more proactive, and Ynni Cymru, as we've heard, is one particular vehicle that we can and should utilise to make some of this happen. And, of course, state-controlled energy isn't unfamiliar to the market. It certainly isn't unfamiliar to us here in the UK. I suppose EDF is the most famous company—or infamous, maybe, depending what you think—but it's French owned, or 85 per cent state owned. The French state has that share in the company. But there...Request free trial