6 Amendments of Margrete AUKEN related to 2016/2058(INI)
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
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2. Recalls that heating and cooling constitute the largest share of the EU’s energy demand; emphasises the importance of technology-neutral and market-based incentives in the transition to a low-carbon and secure energy supply to the heating and cooling sector and of focusing not only on a component level, such as buildings;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Notes that in colder climate space heating accounts for more than 80 % of heating and cooling consumption in total; emphasises that 85% of the energy consumption within a building is required for space heating and domestic hot water and that it is therefore necessary to enable consumers to accelerate the modernisation of their old and inefficient heating systems; calls on the European Commission to prioritise the modernisation of the existing building stock in the EU and the – largely inefficient – installed heating systems, in the review of the Directive on the Energy Performance of Buildings (2010/31/EU);
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2 b. Recalls that despite some progress in the heating and cooling sector moving to renewable energy, 75 % of the primary energy supply still comes from fossil fuels; notes that buildings - and people living in them - are the first consumers of heating and cooling; emphasises that the first priority is to reduce the energy bills through renovation; insists that the remaining need for heating and cooling should come directly or indirectly from renewable energy sources;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to fully utilise the heating and cooling sector in achieving cost-efficient gains in energy efficiency at system level by linking heat and power production, industrial processes, waste management and demand-side management; emphasises that heat and power production linked to waste management should be consistent with the waste hierarchy as defined in the circular economy, avoiding lock-in to incineration of resources which can be recycled or reused;
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 5
5. Underlines the widespread availability of solid biomass and theNotes the locally varying availability of waste and residue biomass potential for district heating as a cost- efficient means of decarbonisingreducing carbon intensity of the energy sector while also contributing to security of supply objectives; emphasises that a European gas crisis would be a heat crisinotes that biomass is the most widely used renewable energy for heating and cooling today, representing about 90 % of all renewable heating; emphasises the need of setting sustainability criteria for bioenergy that take into account the mitigation potential within policy-relevant timeframes;
Amendment 82 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 6
6. Calls for a review of existing legislation focused on safeguarding technology neutrality and cost efficiency so as to ensure that it does not promote or discredit one technology over another – renewable energy produced on-site or near a building should for instance be accounted for when calculating the building’s energy performance, regardless of the source.accounting for the biomass carbon mitigation potential within policy-relevant timeframes;