35 Amendments of Jeppe KOFOD related to 2016/2058(INI)
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas 50% of the energyfinal energy demand is used for heating and cooling in the EU is primary energyof which 80% is used in buildings;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. reminds that 50% of our necessary cuts in emissions, to live up to our COP21 engagements, must come from energy efficiency, and given that buildings consume 40% of final energy and cause 36% of CO2 emissions, stresses that lowering energy demand in buildings is the most direct and cost-effective way to actually reach our climate ambitions, meanwhile boosting the EU's energy security and re-industrialisation;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. given the huge share buildings represent in the total final energy consumption, stresses the crucial role a higher energy efficiency in buildings and demand response programmes can play in balancing energy demand and topping off peak demand, which leads to reducing overcapacity and the lowering of generation, operational and transport costs;
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas – although there is a huge potential for renewable energy on a European, national, local and micro-level – the share of RES energy in heating and cooling in the Member States is insufficient;
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. points out that the demand for heating and cooling highly depends on local circumstances and that 90% of renewable energy is connected to the distribution grid, implicating the importance of the local dimension and distribution grids when talking about heating and cooling;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. stresses that the focus on the local dimension should also be reflected in infrastructural decisions, preparing the grid for more heating and cooling based on renewable energy at local and micro level, improving sustainability and efficiency and lowering costs and transportation losses;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas ambitious goals for deep renovation of the existing building stock would create millions of European jobs, especially in SMEs, increase Energy Efficiency and play a vital role in ensuring minimising energy consumption for heating and cooling;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas natural gas is becoming ever more importaprevalent in heating given that the chemical energy stored in it can be converted into heat energy highly efficiently; whereas continued reliance on fossil fuels runs counter to the EU's climate and energy obligations and decarbonisation goals;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph -1 (new)
Paragraph -1 (new)
-1. Points out the necessity to take along specific measures for heating and cooling when revising the energy efficiency directive (2012/27/EU) and the renewable energy directive (2009/28/EC) as well as the energy performance of buildings directive (2010/31/EU);
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph -1 a (new)
Paragraph -1 a (new)
-1a. Calls for specific sustainable heating and cooling strategies to be developed at national level, giving special attention to combined heat and power, cogeneration, district heating and cooling preferably based on renewables, as is stated in art 14 of the EED (2012/27/EU);
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph -1 b (new)
Paragraph -1 b (new)
-1b. When it comes to heating and cooling, points out the importance of respecting the principles of energy efficiency first and the trias energetica (reduction of demand, utilisation of renewables, optimization of fossil fuel systems) and acting accordingly when making policy and investment decisions;
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph -1 c (new)
Paragraph -1 c (new)
-1c. Stresses that energy efficiency measures should be given priority to, or at least treated on the same footage with, generating capacity when deciding on infrastructural and heating and cooling investments;
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph -1 d (new)
Paragraph -1 d (new)
-1d. Points out that improving the thermal efficiency of buildings by, amongst others, insulating, can reduce the energy demand in a building up to 70% according to studies; therefore, the optimal first step is often to reduce the energy and heating and cooling demand up to the cost-optimal level, before or combined with optimizing the heating and cooling systems, as the cheapest and most sustainable form of energy is still the one that is not used;
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Welcomes the Communication from the European Commission on an EU Strategy on Heating and Cooling;
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
Amendment 170 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Considers that the use of appropriate architectural solutions and urban design principles, such as urban level network solutions and sustainable district heating and cooling, in the planning of whole residential areas should be the basis for energy-efficient and low- emission construction in the various climate zones in Europe;
Amendment 211 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses that in dense urban agglomerations it is imperative that the use of individual heating systems that depend on fossil fuels be restricted and replaced with large-scale local cogeneration systems that produce heat and electricitystate-of-the-art individual or district heating and cooling systems, which are more efficient and preferably renewables based;
Amendment 220 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Highlights the possibilities of thermal storage systems to enable heating and cooling generated in a sustainable way to be stored in thermal forms when not needed, and transported and used in cases of peak demand, hereby helping to balance the grid, facilitate the integration of renewables, lower energy production, imports and prices;
Amendment 227 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Calls for the development of a heating and cooling energy demand indicator for buildings at a national level;
Amendment 228 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 c (new)
Paragraph 7 c (new)
7c. Calls for a strategic approach to reduce the CO2 emissions of industrial heating and cooling demands, by improving efficiency of the processes, substituting fossil fuels by sustainable sources and integrating industries in the surrounding thermal energy environment;
Amendment 229 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 d (new)
Paragraph 7 d (new)
7d. Highlights the huge potential of clustering energy and resource flows to save primary energy use, especially in industrial environments, where, according to the cascading system, excess heat or cold from one process can be re-used in another one which demands less extreme temperatures, and, where possible, up to heating and cooling buildings via district heating systems;
Amendment 236 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Notes that outdated heating plants with low energy efficiency should be replaced by small, environmentally- friendly CHP plants that use natural gas or other green fuelalternatives;
Amendment 295 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Calls on the Member States to set ambitious new goals for their national building renovation strategies in time for the 2017 revision and to ensure full implementation of current strategies; stresses that these strategies should lead to a European building stock consisting of nearly zero-energy buildings by 2050; underscores the importance of ensuring sufficient access to financing and investment capabilities in this regard;
Amendment 298 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)
Paragraph 13 b (new)
13b. Reminds the Commission and the Member States that 75 % of the existing European building stock is energy inefficient, and that estimates show that 90 % of these buildings will still be in use by 2050; highlights therefore the urgent need to specifically target these buildings for deep renovation;
Amendment 299 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 c (new)
Paragraph 13 c (new)
13c. Stresses the importance of a holistic and integrated approach to building renovation, RES integration and energy efficiency projects and initiatives as no building should be perceived as an energy island; highlights the immense potential of integrating energy systems and launching industrial symbioses;
Amendment 300 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 d (new)
Paragraph 13 d (new)
13d. Calls for substantially increased integration between the thermal and the electric power sector, with a strong regard to ensuring efficient transport of energy between the two; stresses that access to adequate heating, cooling and ventilation is important to ensure proper quality of life for European citizens;
Amendment 315 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the Member States to take administrative steps to ban the use of outdated furnaces that generate ‘low height’ emissions – releasing into the atmosphere natural pyrolytic gases from incomplete combustion, NOx, soot and fly ash dispersed by convection – in the heating of agglomerations and to promote the use of sustainable and efficient alternatives;
Amendment 340 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Considers that increased electrification of heating and cooling systems is a vital step to ensure both decreased reliance on fossil fuels, increase European energy independence and ensure greater demand for RES; stresses the importance of technologies such as heat pumps in this regard;
Amendment 352 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Given that fossil fuels account for 75% of the primary energy supply in heating and cooling, and therefore for more than 37% of the EU’s total energy consumption, points out to the Commission the possibility of including those sectors in the EU ETS, including fuel combustion facilities with a capacity of less than 20 MW; calls also for subsidies for fossil fuels to be phased out by Member States to ensure uptake of RES for heating and cooling; stresses that such subsidies could be transferred to energy efficiency projects to avoid negative effects on the fight against energy poverty and to ensure that consumers are not adversely affected;
Amendment 364 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Takes the view that research should be carried out under the Horizon 2020 framework programme on sustainable and efficient heating and cooling systems and materials, such as small-scale renewable generation and storage solutions, district heating and cooling systems, cogeneration, insulation materials and innovative materials such as structural window panes that let in high levels of short-wave radiation (sunlight) from outside and let out only a minimum of the long-wave thermal radiation that would otherwise escape to the outside;
Amendment 418 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Takes the view that consumers must be made fully aware of the technological and economic benefits of new heating and cooling systems, so as to enable them to make the best possible choices; reminds the Member States of their responsibilities to ensure that consumers are presented with such information;
Amendment 421 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Points out the lack of awareness of consumers about the often low performance of their current heating and cooling systems and the ways in which they can improve their situation, stresses in that sense the need for information, awareness raising and guidance campaigns to inform and incentivise consumers to modernise their installations and connect to collective heating and cooling solutions as well as apply for joint purchasing initiatives;
Amendment 429 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 b (new)
Paragraph 26 b (new)
26b. Urges Member States to introduce an energy labelling system for installed heating and cooling installations to make consumers aware of the energy performance of their installations and to boost the replacement of old, polluting systems by efficient and more sustainable options;
Amendment 431 #
26c. Urges the Commission and the Member States to come up with specific strategies to tackle the ever growing problem of energy poverty in order to help all consumers, especially the most vulnerable, to ameliorate their housing, heating and cooling conditions, on an individual or collective basis, whether they are home owners or tenants;