17 Amendments of Pervenche BERÈS related to 2016/0382(COD)
Amendment 188 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 18
Recital 18
(18) Without prejudice to adaptations of support schemes to bring them in line with State aid rules, renewables support policies should be stable and avoid frequent changes. Such changes have a direct impact on capital financing costs, the costs of project development and therefore on the overall cost of deploying renewables in the Union. Member States should prevent the revision of any support granted to renewable energy projects from having a negative impact on their economic viability. In this context, Member States should promote cost-effective support policies (without necessarily being wholly guided by these) and ensure their financial sustainability.
Amendment 197 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 22
Recital 22
(22) Heat pumps enabling the use of aerothermal, geothermal or hydrothermal 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. Cooling production should be assessed in a similar way.
Amendment 271 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 53 a (new)
Recital 53 a (new)
(53a) Member States must ensure compliance with the rules on consumption and on the introduction or strengthening of measures to combat forced sales, unfair selling and misleading claims in respect of the installation of renewable energy equipment predominantly affecting the most vulnerable groups (e.g. the elderly, those in rural areas, etc.).
Amendment 447 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point f f
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point f f
(ff) ‘waste-based fossil fuels’: means liquid and gaseous fuels produced from waste streams of non-renewable origin, including waste processing gases and exhaust gases; in particular, which, recombined with hydrogen, may constitute a solution for using CO2 by the production of new synthetic fuels;
Amendment 541 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Member States shall encourage the use of surplus electricity produced by renewables at times when production exceeds immediate consumption either by developing storage solutions or by converting electricity into another source of energy.
Amendment 544 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 2 b (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Member States shall support the transformation of the combustion of waste streams from non-renewable sources into new sources of energy by promoting the re-use of the CO2 produced (CCU), thereby reducing emissions.
Amendment 557 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 3
Article 4 – paragraph 3
3. Member States shall ensure that support for renewable electricity is granted in an open, transparent, competitive, non- discriminatory and cost-effective manner. Member States may apply technology- specific or technologically neutral support mechanisms.
Amendment 598 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 4 a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Member States may provide for exceptions to the tendering procedures laid down in paragraph 3 for small facilities and in situations where it can be shown that there is insufficient competition. Market integration of the support mechanisms provided for in paragraph 2 may be reserved for facilities with capacity above the thresholds set out in [Article 11 of the Electricity Market Regulation].
Amendment 605 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 4 b (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. In order to increase the generation of energy from renewable sources in the outermost regions, Member States may adapt support to projects located in those regions to take into account, as regards the financial aspect, production costs associated to their specific conditions of isolation and external dependence and, as regards the technological aspect, the specific characteristics of these territories (insularity, sunshine, exposure to winds ...).
Amendment 655 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 1
Article 6 – paragraph 1
Amendment 669 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 3
Article 7 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 3
Ambient heat energy captutransferred by heat pumps for the production of heating or cooling shall be taken into account for the purposes of paragraph 1(b) provided that the final energy output significantly exceeds the primary energy input required to drive the heat pumps. The quantity of heat to be considered as energy from renewable sources for the purposes of this Directive shall be calculated in accordance with the methodology laid down in Annex VII. The quantity of network cooling to be considered as energy from renewable sources for the purposes of this Directive shall be calculated in accordance with the methodology laid down in Annex VIIa. Ambient cooling transferred by free cooling technology must be considered as energy from renewable sources for the purposes of paragraph 1(b).
Amendment 851 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 19 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 3
Article 19 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 3
Member States shall ensure that no guarantees of origin are issued to a producer that receives financial support from a support scheme for the same production of energy from renewable sources. Member States shallmay issue such guarantees of origin and transfer them to the market by auctioning them. The revenues raised as a result of the auctioning shall be used to offset the costs of renewables support.
Amendment 854 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 19 – paragraph 3
Article 19 – paragraph 3
3. For the purposes of paragraph 1, guarantees of origin shall be valid with respect to the calendar yearfor electricity shall be used to guarantee consumption for the month in which the energy unit is produced. Six months after the end of each calendar year, Member States shall ensure that all guarantees of origin from the previous calendar year that have not been cancelled shall expire. Expired guarantees of origin shall be included by Member States in the calculation of the residual energy mix.
Amendment 868 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 19 – paragraph 8
Article 19 – paragraph 8
8. Where an electricity supplier is required to prove the share or quantity of energy from renewable sources in its energy mix for the purposes of Article 3 of Directive 2009/72/EC, it shallmay do so by using guarantees of origin. Where Member States have arranged to have guarantees of origin for other types of energy, suppliers shall always use for disclosure the same type of guarantees of origin as the energy supplied. Likewise, guarantees of origin created pursuant to Article 14(10) of Directive 2012/27/EC shallmay be used to substantiate any requirement to prove the quantity of electricity produced from high- efficiency cogeneration. In relation to paragraph 2, where electricity is generated from cogeneration using renewable sources only one guarantee of origin may be issued specifying both characteristics. Member States shall ensure that transmission losses are fully taken into account when guarantees of origin are used to demonstrate consumption of renewable energy or electricity from high efficiency cogeneration.
Amendment 874 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 19 – paragraph 9
Article 19 – paragraph 9
9. Member States shall recognise guarantees of origin issued by other Member States in accordance with this Directive exclusively as proof of the elements referred to in paragraph 1 and paragraph 7 (a) to (f). A Member State may refuse to recognise a guarantee of origin only when it has well-founded doubts about its accuracy, reliability or veracity. Member States may also refuse to recognise guarantees of origin issued by other Member States for energy from biomass where the fuels used do not comply with the minimum criteria set by the Member States or where the criteria set out in Article 26 are not complied with. The Member State shall notify the Commission of such a refusal and its justification.
Amendment 966 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 21 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 21 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Member States shall carry out an assessment of the existing barriers and potential of development of self- consumption in their territories in order to put in place an enabling framework to promote and facilitate the development of renewable self-consumption. That framework shall include: (a) specific measures, including financial incentives, to encourage participation in self-consumption by low-income households at risk of energy poverty, including those who are tenants; (b) tools to facilitate access to finance; (c) incentives for developers to undertake projects sited in social housing; (d) incentives to building owners to create opportunities for self-consumption for tenants; (e) the removal of all regulatory barriers to renewable self-consumption. (f) more rigorous combating of abusive selling practices This assessment and enabling framework shall be part of the national climate and energy plans in accordance with Regulation [on the Governance of the Energy Union].
Amendment 1286 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex VII a (new)
Annex VII a (new)
Annex VII a (new) The amount of cold in the systems to be considered energy from renewable sources for the purposes of this Directive, ERES, shall be calculated in accordance with the following formula: ERES = Q usable cold* (1 – 1/SPF cold) where: – Q usable cold = the total measured quantity of usable cold delivered by heat pumps fulfilling the following criteria: only heat pumps for which SPF > 1.15 * 1/η shall be taken into account, and only combined thermal-energy or surface- water heat pumps shall be taken into account; - SPF cold = the measured average seasonal performance factor for these heat pumps, – η is the ratio between total gross production of electricity and the primary energy consumption for electricity production and shall be calculated as an EU average based on Eurostat data.