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 "name": "Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare",
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  "note": "No big wind farm on the national grid is mapped to this constituency. Smaller wind farms here can still be paid to switch off by the local network, but those payments are not visible in national data \u2014 the \u00a3 figure is a floor.",
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