English: I'm asking the Senedd to agree with the second statement in our motion, which is that there is a need to ensure that all energy developments bring benefits to the communities in which they're located, and this is so important, I think. We as a nation have so much to offer in terms of energy development; we could be supplying and fulfilling not just our needs in terms of clean energy and low-carbon energy and renewable energy, but we could be a major exporter, and that could bring significant economic benefits as well as environmental benefits. But when we are asking communities to provide a home to developments of this kind, we need to realise that they can have a significant impact, so we need to support those communities and consider their needs and their aspirations as communities. I could refer to one proposed energy scheme in Anglesey that exists because of its community - the Morlais scheme to develop a tidal flow scheme on the coast of Anglesey, which is run by a social enterprise, Menter Môn, to keep the profits local. There are a whole host of similar schemes across Wales. I visited Ynni Ogwen recently. I welcome the principle in the Government's target to ensure that at least 1 GW of renewable energy in Wales should be under local ownership by 2030, and I'll remind you that one of the major functions of the Welsh energy company that Plaid Cymru wants to see established - with its headquarters in Anglesey, hopefully - would be to promote community schemes. But it's a very small minority of energy generation that currently happens in this way. Let me contrast that kind of vision with what is happening on Anglesey at the moment in the field of solar energy. Now, recent decisions by the Welsh Government to earmark large parts of Anglesey as a solar development site have provided opportunities for major international companies to have an easier pathway towards permission to create solar farms - huge farms. The results are to be seen already. It's frightening how quickly things have happened. Enso Energy has announced plans for a 750-acre solar farm; Lightsource BP have plans to create 350 MW of solar energy that extends to over 2,000 acres; the Low Carbon company has identified 150 acres for Traffwll solar farm; EDF has bought a 190-acre site with permission for a solar farm on the north of the island, and that's on top of the plans that have been developed already. We're talking here about huge areas of land, including, of course, Môn Mam Cymru, good agricultural land, and we're talking about the communities around those areas and within those areas. I have no doubt that Anglesey can make a major contribution in solar energy developments, but the truth is that the plans on the table are going to leave a huge footprint on parts of rural Wales with very little benefit for those communities - almost no jobs and no expectations in terms of wider financial benefits or otherwise. What do developers allege as local benefit? EDF's website says that £10,000 will be paid as a community benefit on an annual basis - only £10,000. Now, the developers of the Alaw Môn farm invite plans for a sustainable project in the area. They also promise that their scheme will provide opportunities to rest land that has been intensively farmed - I think that that is an insulting attempt to put a spin on the loss of agricultural land. What this tells us is that there is nothing in place to ensure that there is community benefit at all, and that's why, in this proposal, I'm calling on the Welsh Government, either through regulations or new legislation, to insist that developers of energy projects have to prove the community benefits of their proposed developments by having to conduct community impact assessments and present a community benefit plan as part of the planning process. Real benefit could come in several forms. Significant financial benefits are the most obvious, of course. But, in an e-mail to me this morning outlining the payments to communities that they say that they make, emanating from their projects in Wales, RWE say:
Welsh: Dwi'n gofyn i'r Senedd yma gydsynio efo'r gosodiad yn ail gymal y cynnig, sef ein bod ni'n cytuno bod angen sicrhau bod pob datblygiad ynni yn dod â budd i'r cymunedau lle maen nhw wedi'u lleoli, ac mae hyn mor bwysig, dwi'n credu. Mae gennym ni fel gwlad gymaint i'w gynnig o ran datblygiadau ynni; mi allen ni fod yn cyflenwi nid yn unig ein hanghenion ein hunain mewn ynni glân, mewn ynni carbon isel ac ynni adnewyddadol, ond mi allen ni hefyd fod yn allforiwr mawr hefyd, a hynny'n gallu dod â budd economaidd sylweddol yn ogystal â buddiannau amgylcheddol mawr. Ond pan ydym ni'n gofyn i gymunedau gynnig cartref i ddatblygiadau o'r fath, mae eisiau sylweddoli eu bod nhw'n gallu cael impact sylweddol, felly, mae eisiau cefnogi'r cymunedau hynny ac ystyried eu hanghenion a'u dyheadau nhw fel cymunedau. Mi allaf i gyfeirio at un cynllun ynni arfaethedig ym Môn sy'n bodoli oherwydd ei gymuned - cynllun Morlais i greu ardal ddatblygu ynni llif llanw oddi ar arfordir gorllewin Môn, sy'n cael ei redeg gan fenter gymdeithasol, Menter Môn, i gadw'r elw yn lleol. Mae yna lu o brosiectau ynni cymunedol eraill ar draws Cymru. Bues i'n ymweld ag Ynni Ogwen ddim llawer iawn yn ôl. Dwi'n croesawu'r egwyddor yn nharged y Llywodraeth o sicrhau y dylai o leiaf 1 GW o ynni adnewyddadol yng Nghymru fod o dan berchnogaeth leol erbyn 2030, ac mi wnaf i'ch atgoffa chi mai un o brif swyddogaethau cwmni ynni Cymru y mae Plaid Cymru mor benderfynol o'i weld yn cael ei sefydlu - efo'i bencadlys yn Ynys Môn, gobeithio - fyddai i gydlynu a chefnogi a hyrwyddo prosiectau ynni cymunedol. Ond lleiafrif bach, wrth gwrs, ar hyn o bryd, o gynhyrchu ynni sy'n digwydd yn y ffordd yma. Gadewch imi gyferbynnu'r math yna o weledigaeth efo beth sy'n digwydd yn Ynys Môn ar hyn o bryd ym maes ynni solar. Mae penderfyniadau diweddar gan Lywodraeth Cymru i glustnodi rhannau mawr o Ynys Môn fel ardal datblygu ynni solar wedi creu cyfle i gwmnïau mawr rhyngwladol gael llwybr haws at ganiatâd i greu ffermydd solar enfawr. Mae'r canlyniadau i'w gweld yn barod. Mae o'n reit frawychus pa mor gyflym mae pethau wedi digwydd. Mae Enso Energy wedi cyhoeddi cynlluniau am fferm solar 750 erw; mae cynlluniau Lightsource BP i gynhyrchu 350 MW o ynni solar yn ymestyn dros 2,000 erw; mae'r cwmni Low Carbon wedi adnabod dros 150 erw ar gyfer fferm solar Traffwll; mae EDF wedi prynu safle 190 erw efo caniatâd yn barod am fferm solar yng ngogledd yr ynys, ac mae hynny ar ben y cynlluniau sydd wedi'u datblygu'n barod. Rydym ni'n sôn yn fan hyn am am ardaloedd enfawr, yn cynnwys, wrth gwrs, Môn Mam Cymru, tir amaethyddol da, ac rydym ni'n sôn am y cymunedau o gwmpas yr ardaloedd ac o fewn yr ardaloedd hynny. Does gen i ddim amheuaeth y gall Ynys Môn wneud cyfraniad mawr mewn datblygiadau ynni solar, ond y gwir amdani ydy bod y cynlluniau ar y bwrdd yn mynd i adael ôl troed enfawr ar ardaloedd o gefn gwlad efo ychydig iawn, iawn o fudd i'r cymunedau hynny - does yna prin ddim swyddi a dim disgwyliad o ran budd ehangach yn ariannol neu fel arall. Beth mae datblygwyr yn ei honni fel budd lleol? Mae gwefan EDF yn brolio y bydd £10,000 yn cael ei dalu fel budd cymunedol yn flynyddol - dim ond £10,000. Mae datblygwyr fferm Alaw Môn yn gwahodd syniadau am gynllun neu brosiect cynaliadwy yn yr ardal. Maen nhw hefyd yn addo y bydd eu cynllun nhw'n rhoi'r cyfle i orffwys tir sydd wedi cael ei ffermio'n ddwys - ymgais, dwi'n meddwl, sydd yn ddigon sarhaus i roi sbin ar golli tir amaethyddol da. Beth mae hyn yn ei ddweud wrthym ni ydy nad oes yna ddim byd ar hyn o bryd i drio sicrhau bod yna fudd cymunedol o gwbl, a dyna pam, yn y cynnig yma, dwi'n galw ar Lywodraeth Cymru, un ai drwy reoliadau neu ddeddfwriaeth newydd, i fynnu bod datblygwyr prosiectau ynni yn gorfod profi budd cymunedol eu datblygiadau arfaethedig drwy orfod cynnal asesiad effaith cymunedol a chyflwyno cynllun budd cymunedol fel rhan o'r broses gynllunio. Mi allai budd go iawn ddod ar sawl ffurf. Budd ariannol sylweddol ydy'r ffurf fwyaf amlwg. Ond, mewn e-bost ataf i y bore yma yn amlinellu taliadau i gymunedau y maen nhw'n dweud y maen nhw'n eu gwneud, yn deillio o nifer o'u prosiectau ynni nhw yng Nghymru, mae cwmni ynni RWE yn dweud hyn: