Bute Energy says pylons are needed to get power from windfarms in mid-Wales to Shropshire.
Sarah and Shaun Sheppard, and Fiona Davis, said the wires will come close to their homes in ShropshirePeople on the route of a planned power line said they "don't have a voice" over the final decision.The company says its 27-metre steel lattice pylons were less obtrusive than similar plans in the past.
The firm said the development was necessary if the UK and Welsh governments were to meet their net zero targets.Resident Shaun Sheppard said the route would run about 150m from his home and almost adjacent to those of his neighbours. "We're concerned enough to want to say something because we don't feel we have a voice in these matters. Schemes like this are designed in London and Cardiff and they just get dumped on us here in the rural environment," he said."If you look behind us there's already a pylon that's very high as it is - and that's half the size of the proposed pylons."
Green GEN Cymru, part of the Bute Energy Group, said its pylons would be shorter and less bulky than those proposed for aFollow BBC West Midlands on
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