This week Adam brings together a panel of energy industry experts with the students of Holyhead High School for a Question Time on the economic and environmental impacts of the Anglesey Energy Island initiative.

Broadcast Tuesday 13th March at 7pm

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For centuries Anglesey had a reputation as the breadbasket of Wales, growing crops to feed the nation. Because of this the island became known as Môn Mam Cymru - the Mother of Wales - and the windmills which ground the grain became a symbol of Anglesey. Nowadays, however, the windmills have given way to their modern counterparts: electricity-generating wind turbines.

Anglesey Energy Island is an initiative to re-establish Anglesey as 'the mother of Wales' in another context - generating electricity sustainably to power industries, technologies and homes in Wales and across the UK. It aims to attract jobs and investment to the island by developing low-carbon options like wind energy - both land-based and offshore turbines - and nuclear power.

As part of the Bangor Science Festival and National Science and Engineering Week 2012, this week's Science Cafe is a special event at Holyhead High School. Adam chairs a 'Question Time' with a panel of experts from the power industry, all of them in different ways involved in deciding where future generations will get their energy from and what part Anglesey will play in that. The panel answers questions from school students on the safety of nuclear power, the visual impact of wind turbines and the economic and environmental implications of designating Anglesey an 'Energy Island'.

The panellists are:

• Sasha Wynn Davies, Programme Director of the Anglesey Energy Island initiative;
• Mark Salisbury, Lead Engineer for Plant Commissioning and Operations at Horizon Nuclear Power, the company which is developing plans for the next nuclear power station at Wylfa;
• Laura Jeffs, Head of Development at Centrica Energy and involved in securing new sites for offshore wind energy;
• Gerry Jewson, Chairman and Chief Executive of West Coast Energy, an independent wind energy company based in Mold;
• Neil Crumpton, formerly of Friends of the Earth Cymru and now an independent energy consultant and Chair of Planet Hydrogen, a group which promotes the use of hydrogen as a fuel produced from renewable resources.

Links

Anglesey Energy Island

Bangor Science Festival

National Science and Engineering Week