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"I suspect you – and a lot of people who like the idea of underground electricity cables – don’t quite know what’s involved with installing them. The view might be nicer a few decades after they’re laid, but installing them is quite the process."

capx.coAndy Burnham’s devolution drive has a Nimby problemPlaid Cymru want to lay underground cables instead of building new pylons

Abelian

@abelian.bsky.social

20h

If we are going to talk about 400kV lines in this context, can we please list a few of the 400kV lines that the new rules will apply to? My understanding was that the big high voltage lines are reserved, so this is for 132kV lines and below. And probably not all of those.

James Ball

@jamesrball.com

I did note that in the piece! "Plaid Cymru only actually has authority over lower-power local transmission lines, so the actual works would be smaller, but the principle holds true."

26/10/26, 6:32 pm0 reposts1 like

Abelian

@abelian.bsky.social

20h

It's complicated, because planning can happen in Westminster, in the Welsh government, or at local council level. But it's frustrating that the discussion is leaping to "burying 400kV lines is hard" when nobody is actually proposing that.