THE Wales Green Party leader is to stand as a General Election candidate in Ceredigion next month.

Grenville Ham, who has only been leader of the party since March, has been selected to stand as Ceredigion’s Green Party candidate in the General Election on Thursday, 8 June.

Mr Ham, 39, who lives in Brecon with his wife and children, is the founder and managing director of TGVHydro, a not-for-profit community-owned hydropower design and construction company, and won a British Empire Medal for services to the renewable energy industry in Wales in 2013.

Following his successful selection at a meeting of local party members, Mr Ham pledged to make the challenges facing Ceredigion’s farmers, young people and rural economy a priority for his campaign and, if elected, his work as an MP.

He said he will focus on the opportunities offered by renewable energy, in terms of job creation and reducing emissions.

“I am very proud to be representing the Wales Green Party in Ceredigion, and I am looking forward to debating with the other candidates,” he said.

“I am standing because the alarm bells are already ringing on climate change, and I don’t want us to look back in five or 10 years and realise we missed the starting gun on the next industrial revolution.

“We have an abundance of natural resources in Ceredigion, and we can use renewable energy to create many skilled jobs and also revenue for community groups and farmers.”

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