The North Wales Hydro-Electric Power Act 1955 (4 & 5 Eliz.

2. c. xxv) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which gave powers to the Central Electricity Authority (CEA) to build the hydro-electric stations at Ffestiniog and Rheidol in North Wales and associated purposes.

[1] This act gave powers to the CEA to build the hydro-electric stations at Ffestiniog and Rheidol in North Wales The North Wales Hydro-Electric Power Act 1955 received royal assent on 27 July 1955.

Its long title is ‘An Act to confer powers upon the Central Electricity Authority for the construction and erection of works and generating stations in the counties of Merioneth, Cardigan and Montgomery and for the acquisition of lands and easements for the purposes thereof or in connection therewith and for other purposes.’[2] The act comprises 52 sections Table of Statutes referred to in this Act The act empowered the CEA to construct hydro-electric generating stations at Ffestiniog and Rheidol.

By 1962 when both power stations had been commissioned, Ffestiniog had an installed capacity of 150 MW and generated 30.26 MWh in 1962, Rheidol had a capacity of 37 MW and generated 155.56 MWh that year.