12 Amendments of Sirpa PIETIKÄINEN related to 2020/0360(COD)
Amendment 328 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17
Recital 17
(17) The Union should facilitate infrastructure projects linking the Union’s energy networks with third-country and global networks that are mutually beneficial and necessary for the energy transition worldwide and the achievement of the climate targets within EU and globally, and which also meet the specific criteria of the relevant infrastructure categories pursuant to this Regulation, in particular with neighbouring countries and with countries with which the Union has established specific energy cooperation. Therefore, this Regulation should include in its scope projects of mutual interest where they are sustainable and able to demonstrate significant net socio-economic benefits for at least two Member States and at least one third country. Such projects would be eligible for inclusion in the Union list upon conditions of regulatory approximation with the Union and upon demonstrating a contribution to the Union’s and the third countries overall energy and climate objectives in terms of security of supply and decarbonisation. Such regulatory alignment or convergence should be presumed for the European Economic Area or Energy Community Contracting Parties. In addition, the third country with which the Union cooperates in the development of projects of mutual interest should facilitate a similar timeline for accelerated implementation and other policy support measures, as stipulated in this Regulation. Therefore, in this Regulation, projects of mutual interest should be considered in the same manner as projects of common interest with all provisions relative to projects of common interest applying also to projects of mutual interest, unless otherwise specified.
Amendment 331 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17 a (new)
Recital 17 a (new)
(17a) The Union should aim at securing a European high-voltage direct current (HVDC) super grid connecting the existing and planned smart grids and connected to North-Africa and the Middle East. This approximately 8 billion investment could be financed also with EU green bonds.
Amendment 348 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 23
Recital 23
(23) Following close consultations with all Member States and stakeholders, the Commission has identified 13 strategic trans-European energy infrastructure priorities, the implementation of which is essential for the achievement of the Union’s 2030 and 2050 energy and climate policy targets. Those priorities cover different geographic regions or thematic areas in the field of electricity transmission, distribution and storage, offshore grids for renewable energy, hydrogen transmission, distribution and storage, electrolysers, and smart gas grids, smart electricity grids, and carbon dioxide transporelectricity grids. In addition, in its communication of 8 July 2020 entitled ‘Powering a climate- neutral economy: An EU Strategy for Energy System Integration’ , the Commission pointed to the importance of better integration of heat networks and valuing unavoidable excess heat.
Amendment 394 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 52
Recital 52
(52) Since the objectives of this Regulation, namely the development and interoperability of trans-European energy networks and connection to such networks, preserving, protecting and improving the quality of the environment, protecting human health, prudent and rational utilisation of natural resources, promoting measures at international level to deal with regional or world wide environmental problems, and in particular combating climate change, as well as the establishment and functioning of the internal market and with regard to the need to preserve and improve the environment, in particular to ensure the functioning of the energy market, ensure security of energy supply in the Union, promote energy efficiency and energy saving and the development of new and renewable forms of energy, and promote the interconnection of energy networks, cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States and can therefore be better achieved at Union level, the Union may adopt measures, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty on European Union. In accordance with the principle of proportionality, as set out in that Article, this Regulation does not go beyond what is necessary in order to achieve those objectives.
Amendment 401 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 2 – point a
Article 1 – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) addresses the identification of projects of common interest necessary to implement priority corridors and areas falling under the energy infrastructure categories in electricity, smart gas gridhigh-voltage direct current (HVDC) super grid, heating and cooling networks, hydrogen, and electrolysers, and carbon dioxide set out in Annex II (‘energy infrastructure categories’);
Amendment 450 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 16 a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 16 a (new)
(16a) ‘Energy Infrastructure Council’ or ‘EIC’ means an independent body to be established pursuant to Article 11a of this Regulation to draw up the Ten Year Network Development Plan and its underpinning methodology, long-term scenarios, as well as the infrastructure gap identification and the system wide cost benefit analysis, to contribute to the drafting of regional PCI lists through its representatives and to provide an opinion on the draft Union PCI list.
Amendment 713 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 a (new)
Article 11 a (new)
Amendment 772 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 a (new)
Article 12 a (new)
Article 12 a Long-term scenarios 1. After having conducted an extensive consultation process involving the Commission and at least the organisations representing all relevant stakeholders, the EIC shall develop broad long-term scenarios in line with the Union climate neutrality target for the planning horizon up until 2050. 2. The long- term scenarios shall take as a starting point the revised Union 2030 climate and energy targets and set out the path for infrastructure scenarios necessary to achieve the climate neutrality objective as soon as possible in line with the need to limit global temperature increase to 1,5°C, also taking into account the latest available Commission scenarios. They shall be based on the Member States’ energy efficiency and renewable energy potential, and interlink with their National Energy and Climate Plans, as well as the offshore grid planning according to Article 14 of this Regulation. 3. The scenarios shall set binding network development milestones and intermediate steps to be achieved every 5 years in a cycle aligned to the UNFCCC ratchet-up mechanism. 4. The long-term scenarios shall be drafted and updated in coherence with the Ten-Year-Network-Development-Plan as described in Article 12. They shall be published with the corresponding input and output data in a sufficiently accurate form, allowing for transparency while taking due account of applicable legal requirements, including on confidentiality.
Amendment 969 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – Part 4 – point 11 – introductory part
Annex I – Part 4 – point 11 – introductory part
(11) Smart electricity grids deployment: adoption of smart grid technologies across the Union to efficiently integrate the behaviour and actions of all users connected to the electricity network, in particular the generation of large amounts of electricity from renewable or distributed energy sources and demand response by consumers, while creating a European high-voltage direct current (HVDC) super grid connecting the existing and planned smart grids.
Amendment 988 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – paragraph 1 – point 1 – introductory part
Annex II – paragraph 1 – point 1 – introductory part
(1) concerning electricity and high- voltage direct current (HVDC) super grid:
Amendment 998 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – paragraph 1 – point 2 – introductory part
Annex II – paragraph 1 – point 2 – introductory part
(2) concerning smart gas gridheating and cooling networks:
Amendment 1120 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex IV – point 1 – point g
Annex IV – point 1 – point g
(g) for smart gas grids, a project involves transmission system operatheating and cooling networks, transmission and distribution system operators or distribution system operators from at least two Member States. Distribution system operators can be involved only with the support of the transmission system operators, of at least two Member States, that are closely associated to the project and ensure interoperabilhe project results in avoided cross border infrastructure investments in the concerned Member State and delivers significant heating or cooling capacity.