9 Amendments of María IRIGOYEN PÉREZ related to 2012/2259(INI)
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Maintains that investment in, and the exploitation of, renewable energy will promote economic development, new innovations and technology, and sustainable growth in the EU’s regions and, moreover, will create jobstable jobs, particularly in small and medium-sized enterprises, across Union territory, thus contributing to development and helping to put an end to specific social and geographical vulnerabilities;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls on the Member States to continue to promote investment in renewable energies and energy convergence, and regrets the trend towards the withdrawal of incentives for renewable energies in favour of other less environmentally and socio-economically sustainable energy sources;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Considers that EU regional policy has a key role to play in promoting renewable energy production on a Europe-wide scale; welcomes the fact that the cohesion and regional policy input intended to encourage renewable energy use has continued to expand step by step; considers it particularly important for the direction of Commission policy to be such as to enable the funding rate to be increased further in the comingto ensure that the European Union has sufficient funding for the coming 2014- 2020 period;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Maintains that investment under Common Strategic Framework funds could be of great help in resolving the challenges for renewable energy; draws attention also to the importance of public and private – and first and foremost European – investment and of innovative financial instruments; without overlooking research and development projects supported under the Structural Funds, especially those carried out at grass- root level, points to the role of Horizon 2020 in the development of the European renewable energy sector and in the responses to specific territorial challenges;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Points out that achieving increased renewable energy production will pose challenges to the serviceability of the existing energyobjective of integrating renewable energies agreed by the EU, which requires a strongly meshed transmission network; highlights the importance of increasing both the number and capacity of cross-border interconnections and internal transmission infrastructure; points to the importance of both public and private funding where energy infrastructure investment is concerned; believes that, for example, ELENA assistance should support large- scale renewable energy investment projects to more useful effect and that the Intelligent Energy – Europe programme could be used to foster greater acceptance and wider use of renewable energy;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Points to the importance of self- sufficiency in energy and tof guaranteeing energy supply security throughout the EU, as well as the major role of European renewable energy sources, including slowly renewable sources, for regional economies; points out that the efforts to replace fossil and imported energy with locally produced European renewable energy are important in the long term in order to meet the targets set in the Energy Roadmap 2050 and the Europe 2020 strategy;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Considers that local sustainable energy strategies have an essential role in terms of regional and social development, as they enhance the participation of regional players in renewable energy projects; notes that the Member States and regions have their own strengths as far as renewable energy sources are concerned and that, because of geographical differences, renewable energy policy cannot be exactly the same in every region; points out that bioenergy can do much to foster energy management, economic growth, and vitality, especially in sparsely populated regions and rural areastresses that account must be taken of regions' specific features and their preferences for those renewable energy sources that are best suited to local conditions, with a view to achieving the 2020 targets; points out that bioenergy can do much to foster energy management, economic growth, and vitality, especially in sparsely populated regions and rural areas, as can other energy sources such as geothermal energy, wind energy, in particular offshore wind energy, and wave and tidal energy, which offer effective solutions in terms of meeting the needs of the most vulnerable consumers and help to create jobs;
Amendment 67 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Maintains that effective renewable energy projects should not stop at the EU’s internal borders, to say nothing of its external borders; draws attention to the importance of using cooperation mechanisms and implementing cross- border energy projects and takes the view that European regional cooperation programmes, as well as the IPA and the ENI, should be exploited to the full to help renewable energy to take off; stresses the importance of boosting international energy cooperation, for example in the southern Mediterranean, in order to improve the development of renewable energies; also stresses that best practice should be shared and turned to account under those programmes;
Amendment 75 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Points out that coherence and perseverance are key elements of EU climate and energy policy; notes that the targets set and the requirements imposed on production may not all be consistent in every respect with the aim of achieving the 2020 targets and ensuring that the bulk of energy supply is obtained from renewable energies by 2050; points out that legislation which limits the exploitation of renewable energy will at worst make the targets more difficult to reach, and that this could adversely affect regional economies.