The National Grid must not erect pylons to link a planned nuclear plant to a Gwynedd substation, say campaigners, after the company bowed to pressure to put its cables beneath the Menai Strait. In a victory for campaigners against pylons over the Strait, the energy giant has promised that none will be installed and that cables will instead be put under the sea to link the proposed Wylfa Newydd plant to the electricity network. But there are now concerns about the pylons which could be built in the last two kilometres of the route on the Gwynedd side of the Strait to link to the substation at Pentir.
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