24 Amendments of Flavio ZANONATO related to 2016/0382(COD)
Amendment 115 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) It is thus appropriate to establish a Union binding target of at least 2740% share of renewable energy. Member States should define their contribution to the achievement of this target as part of their Integrated National Energy and Climate Plans through the governance process set out in Regulation [Governance] to be accompanied by binding national targets.
Amendment 166 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 16
Recital 16
(16) Electricity generation from renewable sources should be deployed at the lowest possible cost for consumers and taxpayers. When designing support schemes and when allocating support, Member States should seek to minimise the overall system cost of deployment, taking full account of the integration costs such as grid and system development needs, the balancing costs, the impact on market value of non-programmability of variable renewables, the resulting energy mix, and the long term potential of technologies, and without prejudice to the energy communities.
Amendment 198 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 22
Recital 22
(22) Heat pumps enabling the use of aerothermal, geothermal or hydrothermalmbient heat at a useful temperature level need electricity or other auxiliary energy to function. The energy used to drive heat pumps should therefore be deducted from the total usable heat. Only heat pumps with an output that significantly exceeds the primary energy needed to drive it should be taken into account.
Amendment 227 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 43
Recital 43
(43) Guarantees of origin issued for the purpose of this Directive have the sole function of showing to a final customer that a given share or quantity of energy was produced from renewable sources. A guarantee of origin can be transferred, independently of the energy to which it relates, from one holder to another. However, with a view to ensuring that a unit of renewable energy is disclosed to a customer only once, double counting and double disclosure of guarantees of origin should be avoided. Energy from renewable sources in relation to which the accompanying guarantee of origin has been sold separately by the producer should not be disclosed or sold to the final customer as energy from renewable sources. National Regulatory Authorities should ensure that adequate information is provided to consumers to make them aware of the function of guarantees of origin.
Amendment 287 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 59 a (new)
Recital 59 a (new)
(59a) Household consumers and communities engaging in the trading of their flexibility, self-consumption or selling of their self-generated electricity, shall maintain their rights as consumers, including the rights to have a contract with a supplier of their choice and switching supplier.
Amendment 330 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 101
Recital 101
(101) Since the objectives of this Directive, namely to achieve at least 2740% share of energy by 2030 from renewable sources in the Union's gross final consumption of energy by 2030, including an increasing share of energy from renewable sources in each member State's transport energy consumption as stated in article 3 par. 1 point a, cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States but can rather, by reason of the scale of the action, be better achieved at Union level, the Union may adopt measures, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty on European Union. In accordance with the principle of proportionality, as set out in that Article, this Directive does not go beyond what is necessary in order to achieve those objectives.
Amendment 467 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 a (new)
Article 2 a (new)
Article 2a 'renewable energy community means' a local energy community as defined by Article 2.7 of [Recast Directive 2009/72/EC as proposed by COM(2016) 864] that meets the requirements set out in Article 22, paragraph 1, of this Directive.
Amendment 476 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1
Article 3 – paragraph 1
1. Each Member States shall collectively ensure that the shall ensure that the share of energy from renewable sources in its gross final consumption of energy in 2030, calculated in accordance with this Directive, is at least its national overall target for the share of energy from renewable sources in that year, as set out in the fourth column of the table in part A of Annex I. Such mandatory national overall targets are consistent with a Union target of at least a 40% share of energy from renewable sources in the Union's gross final consumption of energy in 2030 is at least 27%.
Amendment 486 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point a (new)
(a) Over the course of the period 2021-2025, each Member State shall ensure that the share of energy from renewable sources in all forms of transport is at least 8% of the final consumption of energy in transport in that Member State. Over the course of the period 2026-2030, each Member State shall ensure that the share of energy from renewable sources in all forms of transport is at least 10% of the final consumption of energy in transport in that Member State.
Amendment 519 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 1
Article 4 – paragraph 1
1. Subject to State aid rules, in order to reach the Union target set in Article 3(1), Member States may apply support schemes. Support schemes for electricity from renewable sources shall be designed so as to avoid unnecessary distortions of electricity markets and ensure that producers take into account the supply and demand of electricity as well as possible grid constraintsystem integration costs, such as grid costs, balancing costs and profile costs, or grid constraints, and without prejudice to the energy communities.
Amendment 567 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 3 – point a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 3 – point a (new)
(a) In order to limit land use, and after environmental remediation, Member States shall support renewable energy installations in formerly dismissed or partially dismissed industrial areas.
Amendment 588 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 4
Article 4 – paragraph 4
4. Member States shall assess the effectiveness of their support for electricity from renewable sources at least every four years. Decisions on the continuation or prolongation of support and design of new support shall be based on the results of the assessments. Existing support schemes should be preserved without modifications until their expiration.
Amendment 597 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 4 – point 1 (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 4 – point 1 (new)
(1) The Commission shall review the Guidelines on State aid for environmental protection and energy 2014-2020 (2014/C 200/01) in order to fully incorporate the general principles laid down in Article 4, and without prejudice to the energy communities.
Amendment 706 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 15 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 – point a
Article 15 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 – point a
(a) administrative procedures are streamlined and expedited at the appropriate administrative level; and foresee predictable timeframes for the issue of the necessary permits and licenses.
Amendment 752 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 15 – paragraph 8
Article 15 – paragraph 8
8. Member States shall carry out an assessment of their potential of renewable energy sources and of the use of waste heat and cold for heating and cooling. That assessment should specifically consider the potential for small-scale households projects. It should also include an evaluation of the potential and barriers to engage with the energy transition of the vulnerable citizens affected by energy poverty. That assessment shall be included in the second comprehensive assessment required pursuant to Article 14(1) of Directive 2012/27/EU for the first time by 31 December 2020 and in the updates of the comprehensive assessments thereafter.
Amendment 760 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 15 – paragraph 9
Article 15 – paragraph 9
9. Member States shall remove information, administrative and regulatory barriers to corporate long- term power purchase agreements to finance renewables and facilitate their uptake, ensuring these are not subject to disproportionate procedures and charges that are not cost-effective.
Amendment 789 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 16 – paragraph 5
Article 16 – paragraph 5
5. Member States shall facilitate the repowering of existing renewable energy plants by, inter alia, ensuring a simplified and swift permit granting process, which shall not exceed one year from the date on which the request for repowering is submitted to the single administrative contact point. Member States shall ensure that access and connection rights to the grid are maintained for the repowered projects, at least for the capacity of the original project.
Amendment 833 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 19 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
Article 19 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
To that end, Member States shall ensure that a guarantee of origin is issued in response to a request from a producer of energy from renewable sources. Following a positive cost benefit analysis, Member States may arrange for guarantees of origin to be issued for non-renewable energy sources. Issuance of guarantees of origin may be made subject to a minimum capacity limit. A guarantee of origin shall be of the standard size of 1 MWh. No more than one guarantee of origin shall be issued in respect of each unit of energy produced.
Amendment 867 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 19 – paragraph 7 – point a (new)
Article 19 – paragraph 7 – point a (new)
(a) whether and to what extent the energy source from which the energy was produced met sustainability and greenhouse gas emissions saving criteria referred to in Article 26 of the Directive.
Amendment 991 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 22 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 – introductory part
Article 22 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 – introductory part
For the purposes of this Directive, a renewable energy community shall be an SME or a not-for-profit organisation, the shareholders or members of which cooperate in the generation, distribution, storage or supply of energy from renewable sources, fulfilling at least four out ofll the following criteria:
Amendment 997 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 22 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 – point a a (new)
Article 22 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 – point a a (new)
(aa) the community's predominant aim, as determined in its founding statutes, is to provide local community environmental, social or economic benefits rather than generate profits for its members
Amendment 1112 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 24 – paragraph 2
Article 24 – paragraph 2
2. Member States shall lay down the necessary measures to allow customers of those district heating or cooling systems which are not 'efficient district heating and cooling' within the meaning of Article 2(41) of Directive 2012/27/EU to disconnect from the system in order to produce heating or cooling from renewable energy sources themselves, or to switch to another supplier of heat or cold which has access to the system referred to in paragraph 4.
Amendment 1117 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 24 – paragraph 3
Article 24 – paragraph 3
Amendment 1143 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 24 – paragraph 7
Article 24 – paragraph 7