388 steel pylons. 27 metres high. Sixty miles through one of the most beautiful and historically significant landscapes in Wales. We are the communities fighting to stop it.
In Wales, we do not merely live on the land; we are of the land. Our landscape is not a blank canvas for industrial infrastructure — it is the living parchment upon which our history, our folklore, and our language are written.
To plant steel lattice pylons into our valleys is to tear through the very fabric of our Cynefin. When the skyline is scarred, the soul of the community that looks upon it is diminished. We believe that the preservation of our hills, our ridges, and our quiet places is inseparable from the preservation of the Welsh spirit.
We stand as the current stewards of a beauty that does not belong to us — it belongs to those who came before and those yet to be born.
We do not oppose energy; we oppose the desecration of our home. We call for the undergrounding of all high-voltage lines. We ask that the value of our landscape be measured not in pence per kilometre, but in the priceless continuity of our culture.
We fully support renewable energy — but we will not accept that its development should come at the cost of our landscape, our heritage, and the communities that call this valley home. There are better options.
Llandovery Community Pylon Action GroupWales already generates twice the electricity it consumes. This is not a project for Wales. This is a gold rush that will industrialise the beautiful landscapes of rural Wales for profit that flows to Scotland and Denmark.
On the true purpose of the proposalOur slogan — 'Cofiwch Ddyffryn Tywi' — recognises the parallels between what happened at Tryweryn and what is proposed in the Towy Valley. We are united behind our love of the Welsh countryside and the powerful emotions this invokes.
Remember the Towy ValleyA 132kV double-circuit overhead line on steel lattice pylons from Nant Mithil Energy Park through the heart of the Towy Valley to Llandyfaelog substation.
27-metre steel pylons slicing through a Special Landscape Area noted by NRW as scenically and ecologically outstanding.
Iron age hill forts, Roman encampments, Grade I listed Dinefwr and Dryslwyn Castles, Paxton's Tower — centuries of Welsh history.
Tourism worth £412m to Carmarthenshire. The £19m Towy Valley Path cycle trail. Farming families with generations of roots.
The River Towy is an SSSI. Home to tree sparrows, Hairstreak butterfly, water voles, otters, Red Kites, and rare orchids.
Electricity feeds the UK National Grid, not Wales. Bute Energy is based in Scotland, financed by Danish investors. Profits leave.
IARC classifies power-frequency magnetic fields as "possibly carcinogenic." The route passes near homes, schools, and nurseries.
A 27-metre crane erected in the valley to show the true scale of just one pylon. Imagine 388 of them stretching for sixty miles.
Enter your postcode to find your property on the map, then see how the proposed pylons could affect its value — calculated from the actual route coordinates.
Interactive map with all three proposed pylon routes
Includes all three proposed routes: Towy-Usk, Towy-Teifi, and Vyrnwy-Frankton. Underground sections shown but excluded from impact calculations. Based on published UK research.
Welsh Government's preferred position: where possible, cables should be laid underground. The technology exists. It works.
The cable plough cuts, installs and back-fills in one operation. It works on almost any terrain, manoeuvres around rocks, trees, hedges and walls. The land is reinstated the same day.
Local specialist ATP demonstrated burying both 132kV and 400kV cables after one of the wettest winters on record. Pylons are being removed in Snowdonia and Dorset. If they can, so can we.
We are volunteers. Every donation funds our fight. Every name strengthens our voice. Every letter to a politician moves the needle.
Interactive maps, documents, and educational resources to understand the full scale of the threat.
All four Green GEN routes plus wind farms, turbines and solar. Zoom, pan and click for details.
All 739 proposed pylons individually plotted. Download the 3D model for Google Earth.
1m resolution analysis. 142,503 acres — 14% of Carmarthenshire would see at least one pylon.
Castles, ancient monuments, Roman roads, listed buildings threatened by the route.
Trace the ancient Roman road that the pylon route would cross and damage.
Write to the decision-makers. Use gov.wales for ministers, senedd.wales for constituency matters.
Many groups across Wales and beyond are fighting the same battle. Together our voices cannot be ignored.
Writing letters of objection is the single most effective way of fighting against pylons right now.
Write to Bute Energy Ltd. and Green GEN Cymru at: Hodge House, Guildhall Place, Cardiff, CF10 1DY. Copy your political representatives — see Who's Who.
We don't believe this compromise needs to include pylons. We will campaign for this proposal to be stopped until policy makers are willing to consult on the national energy mix, and fight for the best compromise for our region and future generations.
Join us. Protect the Towy Valley.