2 Amendments of Jessica STEGRUD related to 2020/2242(INI)
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas if hydrogen can-technology can be developed and commercially deployed at scale, it could be used for industrial, transport and heating applications, decarbonising sectors in which direct electrification is not possible or competitive, as well as for energy storage to balance the energy system, thereby playing a significant role in energy system integration;
Amendment 312 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Stresses that subsidies to support certain technologies are not effective and unnecessarily costly; believes that technological bias must be rejected in principle because, at this point in time, we cannot be sure how far other technologies will be able to achieve more cost-effective emissions reductions in the future; believes that public money should only be used to support basic research which would not otherwise be undertaken in the private sector; stresses that more far- reaching subsidies should be rejected as they harbour the risk that projects will only be planned in order to obtain support funds and then discontinued due to the lack of a viable business mode;