21 Amendments of Markus PIEPER related to 2012/2259(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Maintains that investment in, and the exploitation of, renewable and other low emission sources of energy will promote economic development, new innovations, and sustainable growth in the EU's regions and, moreover, will create jobs;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – indent 1 (new)
Paragraph 1 – indent 1 (new)
- Having regard to the report on the role of EU cohesion policy in implementing the new European energy policy; (This citation should go before the first paragraph.)
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Emphasises that secure, affordable and environmentally sound energy provision is indispensable for the competitiveness of our regions and of European industry; emphasises, therefore, that the energy supply system needs to be overhauled and the share of RES increased in a manner that is cost- efficient and without prejudice to supply security;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Maintains that investment under Common Strategic Framework funds could be of great help in resolving the challenges for renewable energy; draws attention also to the importance of private – and first and foremost European – investment and of innovative financial instruments; without overlooking research and development projects supported under the Structural Funds, especially those carried out at grass- root level, points to the role of Horizon 2020 in the development of the European renewable energy sector, including renewables, and in the responses to specific territorial challenges; notes that regional and local authorities have a key role to play in deploying the most-needed innovations in the energy sector if the EU is to meet its renewables and energy efficiency targets and should have real opportunity to influence this goals;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. whereas the most of the current arrangements for energy generation from renewable sources take no account of geographical plant location criteria and fail to exploit cost advantages, thereby making the European energy turnaround unnecessarily costly;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Notes that, in many Member States, RES already account for more than 20% of the energy market, while national rules on feed-in tariffs and preferential treatment are leading to distortions of competition;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Calls for national exemptions from the EU prohibition on state aid for renewable energies to be abolished in view of the distortions of the market which have arisen in countries where RES account for over 20% of the energy market; also takes a critical view of preferential feed-in arrangements for RES when their market share exceeds a certain level, which can have the effect of destabilising the grid and distorting competition;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Points to the importance of self- sufficiency in energy and to the major role of European renewable energy sources, including slowly renewable sources, for regional economies; points out that the efforts to replace fossilhigh carbon and imported energy with locally produced European renewable energy are important in the long term in order to meet the targetgoals set in the Energy Roadmap 2050 and the Europe 2020 strategy;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls for a review of the capacity payments envisaged or in place in some countries for conventional power stations to maintain baseload capacity, which may conflict with European competition rules; calls on Member States and energy producers, instead, to organise baseload groupings in cooperation with RES inside the internal market on the basis of free- market principles; asks the Commission to draw up a legal framework for the setting up of local groupings to secure baseload power;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls for the deployment of renewable sources of energy within the EU to be made more efficient by striving towards a system of EU-wide incentives for renewable sources, on which basis specific types of renewables would be deployed in those parts of the EU where they are most efficient, thereby lowering the cost of promoting them and guaranteeing the efficient allocation of funding;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas the most of the current arrangements for energy generation from renewable sources take no account of geographical plant location criteria and fail to exploit cost advantages, thereby making the European energy transition unnecessarily costly;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Considers that local sustainable energy strategies have an essential role in terms of regional and social development, as they enhance the participation of regional players in renewableEuropean energy projects; notes that the Member States and regions have their own strengths as far as renewable energy sources are concerned and that, because of geographical differences, renewable energy policy cannot be exactly the same in every region; points out that bioenergy can do much to foster energy management, economic growth, and vitality, especially in sparsely populated regions and rural areas;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Maintains that effective renewable energy projects should not stop at the EU's internal borders, to say nothing of its external borders; draws attention to the importance of cross-border energy projects and takes the view that European regional cooperation programmes, as well as the IPA and the ENI, should be exploited to the full to helpas far as possible promote the introduction of renewable energy to take offproduction; also stresses that best practice should be shared and turned to account under those programmes;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Maintains that effective renewable energy projects should not stop at the EU's internal borders, to say nothing of its external borders; draws attention to the importance of cross-border energy projects and takes the view that European regional cooperation programmes, as well as the IPA and the ENI, should be exploited to the full to help renewable energy to take off; also stresses that best practice should be shared and turned to account under those programmes; supports the use of cohesion and energy policy funds for cross-border projects with third partner countries and connections between national networks; stresses that bordering regions should be incorporated into the EU system as much as possible to ensure sustainable development on both sides of the border; stresses that such funding should be subject to the application of the EU energy market rules, including the third energy package;
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Notes that the existence of numerous different schemes for promoting renewables in the Member States gives rise to considerable inefficiencies in cross-border electricity trading because it reinforces and indeed aggravates inequalities, thus working against completion of the internal energy market; stresses that this is a major blockage to the development of cross-border regional projects, which are subject to different renewables support regimes;
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Is convinced that only an EU-wide system for promoting RES will offer the most cost-effective framework in which their full potential can be realised; sees decisive advantages in a technology- neutral European market for renewables, in which producers will have to cover a pre-determined quota of their energy output from RES, and in which one of the ways of reaching that quota will be through the trading of certificates on a market established for that purpose; notes the evidence of experience in the Member States that, in order to ensure quotas are met, heavy fines must be imposed for failure to meet them;
Amendment 80 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Notes the January 2013 adopted of the report on the role of EU cohesion policy in implementing the new European energy policy and ask the Commission to take it into account when drafting its renewables policy in regards to cohesion policy.
Amendment 81 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 c (new)
Paragraph 8 c (new)
8c. Emphasises that the further development of renewables will entail permanent landscape change in the regions; points out that the only way to win public acceptance of renewables is through transparent planning, construction and licensing procedures, in which all the stakeholders are involved.
Amendment 449 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)
Paragraph 28 a (new)
28a. Notes that, in many Member States, RES already account for more than 20% of the energy market, while national rules on feed-in tariffs and preferential treatment are leading to distortions of competition;
Amendment 476 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 a (new)
Paragraph 29 a (new)
29 a. Calls for national exemptions from the EU prohibition on state aid for renewable energies to be abolished in view of the distortions of the market which have arisen in countries where RES account for over 20% of the energy market; also takes a critical view of preferential feed-in arrangements for RES when their market share exceeds a certain level, which can have the effect of destabilising the grid and distorting competition;
Amendment 494 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 a (new)
Paragraph 30 a (new)
30 a. Calls for a review of the capacity payments envisaged or in place in some countries for conventional power stations to maintain baseload capacity, which may conflict with European competition rules; calls on Member States and energy producers, instead, to organise baseload groupings in cooperation with RES inside the internal market on the basis of free- market principles; asks the Commission to draw up a legal framework for the setting up of local groupings to secure baseload power;