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Amendments (67)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Heading 1
Heading 1
on current challenges and opportunities for renewable energy orenewable energy: a major player in the European energy market
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 a (new)
Citation 2 a (new)
- having regard to the Commission communication on Europe 2020, a strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth (COM (2010) 2020),
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 4 a (new)
Citation 4 a (new)
- having regard to the Staff Working Document accompanying the proposal for Directive 2009/28/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2009 on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources (SEC(2008) 57),
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
A a. whereas the binding target of a minimum 20% share of renewable energy by 2020 is a headline target of the Europe 2020 strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth;
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas energy policy must, at all times, reflect a balance between therenewable energy contributes to the EU's energy policy aims of supply security and economic and environmental visustainability;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas one of the aims of European Union energy policy – in a spirit of solidarity among the Member States, as part of the creation of the single market and in accordance with the need to conserve and improve the environment – is to promote the development of new and existing renewable energy sources;
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas, under the terms of the EU Treaties, the choice of an energy mix falls within the competence of the Member States and the Commission's Energy Roadmap 2050 concludes that any scenario of Europe's energy system requires a substantially higher share of renewable energy;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas, as things stand at present, the EU is on trackmost EU Member States are on track on their indicative trajectory to achieve the EU target of a minimum 20% share for RES in the energy mix by 2020; whereas a timely opening of infringement procedures against those Member States that fail to put in place an adequate institutional and financial framework to reach their targets is required;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
E a. whereas the role for renewable energy for electric mobility in a smart, integrated and sustainable energy system is not yet adequately tackled on the European level;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
F a. whereas energy consumption must be reduced and efficiency of energy production, transmission and use must be increased;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas investors and financial institutions require security and continuity for both their projected investments beyond 2020already in place and beyond 2020 to promote energy innovation and the development of different RES technologies, to enable the long-term cost-effective transformation of the energy sector and to generate new jobs and growth potentials;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
G a. whereas the European Parliament and the European Council have declared their ambition to secure an 80 to 95 % level of reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Agrees with the Commission that, in future, RES will account for a growing share of energy provision in Europe, both for electricity supply and for the heating and cooling and transport sectors, and that they will reduce Europe's dependence on conventional energy; advocates a nearly 100% RES based highly efficient and sustainable European economy by 2050 as the best way to achieve the EU policy objectives;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Emphasises that safe, secure, affordable and environmentally soundustainable energy provision is indispensable for the competitiveness of the European industreconomy; 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 toincreases supply security;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Criticizes the retroactive measures on RES support mechanisms which have been recently adopted in a series of countries; underlines that, by jeopardising the economics of existing renewable installations, such measures increase the cost of capital for new investors, not only in the countries where they occur, but also throughout Europe; notes that the transformation of the energy sector will require more capital-intensive investments in the coming years and that deteriorating the climate of confidence in renewables will therefore make the achievement of the binding 2020 targets more expensive; calls on the Commission to strongly react to these decisions and use all the appropriate legal means to revise these decisions;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2 b. Stipulates that retroactive changes in support schemes for renewable energy should not be undertaken in the interest of investment security and legal certainty; suggests that - in case those measures become indispensable for well justified reasons - the Portuguese model of joint elaboration of the best solution between government and industry leading to a fair and acceptable agreement should be followed;
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that the Member States are currently acting independently in the promotion of RES, within administrative frameworks that differ widely, and that their potential for developing renewables is uneven on account of natural factors; technical and non- technical factors; underlines that the individual potentials in Member States and the different maturity of technologies need to continuously be reflected in customised support schemes also after 2020;
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that levels of public and political acceptance of renewable energy differ andgrids and energy generation facilities differ; stresses that the availability of public and private financing to promote RES varies widely, especially due to the financial crisis leading to a large capital spread for investors; calls on the Commission to propose solutions for Member States in which investors face high interest rates, especially for Southern European Member States; calls on the Commission to fully explore with the European Investment Bank and national public institutions possibilities to dedicate funds and innovative financial instruments within the current and future EU budget towards the financing of renewable energy projects;
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Emphasizes that the emergence of RES technologies and its decentralized nature initiated the creation of many citizen-owned energy production and distribution cooperatives and community schemes as evidenced in Germany, Belgium and Denmark for example;
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Is concerned that, so far, only somNotes that certain renewable energy technologies are closing the gap with market prices much earlier than expected while of ther renewables on the energy market are not yet economically competitive, although certain other technologies are closing the gap with market prices; agrees with the Commission that all available means must be used to bring the costs down and make RES economically competitivetackle the non- transposition of the internal market provisions resulting for example in highly concentrated electricity generation markets, to make RES economically competitive, while ending support to fossil fuels immediately;
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 2
Subheading 2
Renewable energy oin the fair and fully integrated European internal energy market
Amendment 173 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Expresses its concern about the compatibility of recent changes in tax and power generation legislation in Member States such as Spain with the EU internal energy market provisions, as well as with other EU energy legislation and its general objectives; suggests to tackle fairly and transparently the challenges of the economic crisis as well as national specific problems such as overcapacities in the electricity sector by defining new burden sharing mechanisms for the electricity system costs that also take on board criteria such as historic and indirect subsidies, production efficiency and the internalisation of external costs;
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6 b. Underlines that the current regime - in which the internal energy market has not yet become reality due to non- transposition of the relevant provisions - favours fossil fuel based electricity generation, often through unfair subsidies and dominant incumbents; calls on the Commission to put an end to the resulting unfair treatment towards RES by using its legal means accordingly; calls further for a full internalisation of external costs, such as greenhouse gas emissions;
Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Notes that the existence within the Union of approximately 170 variety of different schemes for promoting RES gives rise to considerable inefficiencies in cross-border electricity trading beensures that the different potentials and technology patterns within the Member States are taken into account in the support scheme design, thus avoiding windfall profits (increasing costs by 25% in the cause it reinforces and indeed aggravates inequalities, thus working against completion of the internal eof a uniform EU support level1) by reflecting the real costs of a technology; welcomes at the same time the Commission initiative to produce guidelines on support schemes; __________________ 1 European Commission, DG Energy Study Ecofys et al. (2011)futures-e; European Commission, Intelligent Energy - Europe, ALTENER Financing RE in the European Energy mMarket;. Resch et al. (2009).
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Notes that those who will benefit most from completion of the internal energy market are the consumers; supports the Commission's view that competition needs to extend to renewables as well as other energy sources because it is the best stimulus to advances in innovation and price reductions; calls for coherent support measures for energy generation and criticizes the recent policy of Greece rising the premium for gas-based electricity production while lowering the one for wind, which has lead to a much higher revenue for fossil fuel based energy generation than for renewable energy generation; calls on the Commission to point out that this is not in line with EU policies and objectives and should be revised;
Amendment 197 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Notes with concern that the cooperation mechanisms introduced by Directive 2009/28/EC have, to date, scarcely beenhave not yet been very much used; points to the Commission's findings indicating that better use of the existing scope for cooperation wcould bring considerable benefits; welcomes the Commission's declared intention to draw up guidelines on cooperation within the EU; calls on the Member States to make better use of the scope for cooperation and to develop communication between one another;
Amendment 201 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9 a. Welcomes that forecasting methods for wind capacity to be available on the intra-day markets have improved, allowing for a better integration of electricity from variable RES; equally welcomes the new network codes required by the 3rd internal energy market package currently being developed by the relevant actors leading to stabilised frequency, thus also contributing to a better integration of RES produced electricity;
Amendment 202 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9 b. Welcomes the introduction of feed-in premium systems in the UK, Italy, Denmark and Germany, allowing RES to fully participate in an integrated internal energy market;
Amendment 204 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Emphasises that RES must be fully integratedin the coming years, renewable energy technologies will play a growing role into the European internal energy market in all the Member States without delay and that in the long term they must take oU energy mix. Hence, new market arrangements should be adopted to reflect this evolution and appropriately integrate the variable and low marginal cost technologies. If an appropriate market design is in place, renewable energy producers will be able to take on in the long run stabilising functions and tasks within the system that have previously been performed by conventional energy sources in accordance with their capabilities;
Amendment 220 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10 a. Assumes that the changing nature of the European energy mix will require adapting the current market design; notes that the benefits generated by renewables, i.e. lowering wholesale electricity market prices via the merit order effect are not properly passed onto the final consumers; calls on energy retailers to pass on their benefits to final consumers;
Amendment 227 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Notes that because, in most cases, renewable sources feeding energy into the grid are decentralised, remotely located and weather-dependent and in certain cases variable, they require infrastructure different from that currently in place, the existing provision having been developed under monopoly times solely for conventional energy;
Amendment 234 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Notes that, in order to guarantee supply security, the development of RES with fluctuatingvariable feed-in will necessitate reserves of conventional energy not previously available; recognisebalancing of these fluctuation throughout an integrated and interconnected European electricity grid; agrees with Commission analysis that the development of reserve capacity would entails substantial costs and that, to make the development or retention of conventional reserves more commercially attractive, it will increasingly need to be promoted; rejects the concept of competition for subsidies and calls for the principles of the market economy to be applied to the design of thdistort the EU-wide price signal and would therefore run counter to EU objectives; rejects additional fossil fuels subsidies and calls for appropriate changes - such as demand-side measures - to be applied to the design of the energy market that would make the need for reserve capacities obsolete, such as addressing the problem that energy only markets currently do not provide a price signal important enough to direct investments towards the development of new flexible genergy marketation;
Amendment 248 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Emphasises that according a large share of the energy mix to RES entails major challenges for existing network infrastructure; notereminds that, in certain Member States, supply security is being severely affected by the increased feed-in from RES; is concerned byvestment in renewable energy sources represent more than half of all investments in new generation capacity over the last 10 years and will continue to grow; therefore understands the finding by the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO- E) that 840%1 of all the bottlenecks in European energy grids relate directly or indirectly to feed-in from RES; __________________ 1 Investments necessary in bottlenecks that are contributing to the achievement of all three EU energy policy objectives internal market, security of supply and RES integration - so-called 'neutral' category - have to be taken out in a correct evaluation.
Amendment 255 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Notes that many of the best and most competitive locations for RES in the EU are at a considerable distance from the centres of energy consumption; notes that the use of such locations is contingent on the development of transmission system while decentralised installations and generation plants close to consumption centres can make a significant contribution to avoid congestions and further extensions of the electricity grid and lead to macroeconomic cost reductions; Underlines that the Commission should develop adequate modelling tools to define the optimal mix of distant, large scale generation plants and distribution level installations;
Amendment 269 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Notes that the development of RES on a major scale, with theirpartly remote and weather-dependent feed-in, can cause uncoordinated cross-border energy flows (loop flows) in other Member States – making load reduction increasingly necessary in the interests of supply security – if it does not go hand-in-hand with the requisite development of the grid; is concerned about the st, if it does not go hand-in-hand with the requisite grid optimisation in system operation, such as temperature line monitoring as well as where appropriate ofthe development of the grid infrastructure in the Member Statand adequate storage capacities;
Amendment 278 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Underscores the need forpotential of smart grids, demand side management tools and electricity storage solutions to facilitate the integration of RES into the energy supply; re-emphasises the urgent need for further research intoand deployment of electricity storage;
Amendment 301 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Is convinced that ICT will in future play a more important role in energy provision and in the management of RES; calls on the Commission to bring forward without delay proposals for the development, promotion and standardisation of smart grids and meters; emphasises that important factors in this regard include not only planning certaintyany smart meter should be designed and installed first and foremost to the benefit onf the providers' side but also acceptance on the part of consumers, as well asconsumer, who should be the only person to decide on the use of the data collected for the reason of data protection;
Amendment 307 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17 a. Highlights that where citizens own renewable production through cooperative or community owned models there is an increase in social acceptance, which is reducing planning time for implementation and promoting greater citizen understanding of the energy transition;
Amendment 312 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Emphasises that the further development of RES will entail permanentenergy production and transmission facilities such as coal mines, high-voltage lines or wind farms have had and will have impacts on the landscape change in Europe; points out that the only way to win public acceptance of RESfor energy projects is through transparent planning, construction and licensing procedures, in which all the stakeholders are involved; welcomes initiatives taken by EU Member States such as Belgium and Denmark, where minimum targets of 25 and 20 % respectively have been set for citizen participation in renewable energy projects; recommends that other Member States similarly fix shares for citizen participation for new renewable development;
Amendment 338 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Recognises that world markets for RES are growing and that this will have a positive impact on the European industry, job creation and on prices and on the further development of existing and new technologies globally and in the EU, if the investment framework and RES support remain predictable;
Amendment 345 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Emphasises that the unlawful distortion of competition on the market is unacceptable; calls on the Commission to bring ongoing competition proceedingproceedings on unfair practices to a conclusion as quickly as possible; emphasises that the best conditions for the growth of RES are offered by free global markets; underscores the need to do more to dismantle barriers to trade; calls on the Commission not to create any new obstacles to trade in finished products or components used in renewable energy technologies; calls on the Commission to help EU companies at all levels of the supply chain to access non EU markets as well as tackling alleged trade distortions including with regard to illegal state aid;
Amendment 354 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Underscores the need for closer cooperation on renewable energy policy with the EU's neighbouring countries; emphasises that in all European countries as well as the Mediterranean region, in particular, there is great potential for electricity generation from RES; highlights the potential of projects such as Desertec und Helionon- domestic projects, which should however not undermine the development of the European RES potential and the related supply security benefits, and of the further development of hydropower in Norway and Switzerland;
Amendment 362 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 5
Subheading 5
Innovation and R&D, R&D and industrial policy
Amendment 366 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Notes that Europe is in the vanguard when it comes to RES technology; emphasrecognises that this ise energy sector, particularly due to the contribution of SMEs; stresses that only, is a motor for other European economic sectors including metals, electrics and electronics equipment, IT, construction, transport and financial services, but does not benefit from any industrial strategy yet. Calls on the European Commission to develop an industrial strategy for renewable energy technologies, as only the latter and innovation, based on R&D, can secure Europe's leading position in RES technology markets;
Amendment 371 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22 a. Underlines that more than 500,000 jobs have been created in the renewable energy sector and that Europe's competitive advantage of a high-skilled labour force should be exploited in the future for safeguarding the current technological leadership and further employment creation;
Amendment 374 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 b (new)
Paragraph 22 b (new)
22 b. Underlines EU industry leadership on onshore wind technologies and the great potential of the European offshore wind industry to contribute to a re- industrialisation of the Member States bordering the Baltic and the North Seas;
Amendment 376 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Is concerned that R&D has been neglected in certain branches of the renewable energy sector, e.g. in the PV sector, leading, in some cases, to commercial problems due to the lack of experience for economies of scale; therefore, calls on the Commission to integrate in its priorities via pilot projects, technology platforms or other programmes large scale (+2500 MW) projects for cell manufacturing PV units; underscores the need for investment in the further development of emerging and existing technologies such as mass production of integrated PV solutions, island solutions for rural areas based on microgrids driven by PV and other decentralised renewable energies as well as system integration between transport and energy, in order to sustain or achieve competitivity;
Amendment 391 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Welcomes the Commission's announcement that it will issue a communication on energy technology policy in 2013; calls on the Commission to include a focus on heating and cooling and on storage technologies;
Amendment 396 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 6
Subheading 6
A European framework for the promotion of renewable energychieving the EU 2020 targets
Amendment 401 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Emphasises that the Member States currently use almost 170 different types of promotion mechanism wide variety of promotion mechanism in accordance with national circumstances and ambition; points out that this support has lead to healthy growth but that some of the promotion systems are very costlyhave not been adapted timely enough leading to temporarily inefficient support, and that, in some cases, a considerable financial burden has been placed on consumers without their havby including had a choice in the matter; notes that, despite the subsidies, RES have managed to become competitive vis-à-vis conventional methods of energyditional cost components in electricity prices, which have no relation to the proper RES support; therefore calls on Member States to ensure full transparency on the share and origin of these costs compared to the cost of the support measures granted to other forms of energy, as well as the producportion only in certain areas, e.g. where the geographical conditions favour themf increase in energy bills due to fossil fuel prices; asks also for more transparency about societal costs of different forms of energy;
Amendment 408 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25 a. Criticises the current case of Spain with relation to support schemes, where RES have been wrongly made the scapegoat for high electricity prices, that are in fact due to national specificities and political choices such as subsidies and windfall profits for conventional power sources (obligation to use domestic coal, income for conventional technologies above pool prices, monopoly- like production structures), costs for electricity systems of the Spanish Islands, capacity payments and other costs, leading to a complete lack of transparency and level-playing field;
Amendment 415 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Emphasises that factors such as increasing fossil fuel prices and state influence has had the effect of making the price of electricity to consumers and industry in certain Member States relatively high; Points out that, in 2010, 22% of households in the EU were worried about being able to meet their electricity bills and assumes that the situation in this regard has since worsened; stresses that energy poverty must be prevented and that industry's ability to compete must not be affected; underlines that energy efficiency policies focusing on the whole energy supply and demand chain, including transformation, transmission, distribution and supply, alongside industrial, building and household consumption can effectively help to reduce energy poverty; furthermore highlights that cooperatively owned renewable energy utilities can help bringing prices down for citizens, by developing and promoting 'smart consumers' through joint purchasing of energy and through educating their members about renewable energy and energy efficiency measures;
Amendment 420 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26 a. Criticizes that the existence of artificially low regulated energy prices in a large number of Member States has led to important tariff deficits for which renewable energy producers are now asked to pay, while conventional technologies often continue to be supported and are exempted from contributing;
Amendment 421 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Warns that pitching support at too high a level has the effect of over-compensating and thus of slowing technological progress and impeding market integration because it reduces the incentive to develop more innovative and better-value products; Notes that over-compensation is often the consequence of poorly designed support mechanisms, unable to sufficiently adapt to the cost decrease path of a particular technology;
Amendment 427 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)
Paragraph 27 a (new)
Amendment 430 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 b (new)
Paragraph 27 b (new)
27 b. Notes that bioenergy is expected to deliver over 50% of the EU's 2020 renewables target, according to member state projections; underlines, therefore, the need for robust sustainability criteria to guarantee the sustainability of biomass as a renewable energy source; emphasises that the forthcoming Commission proposal for biomass sustainability criteria must include correct carbon accounting to ensure real greenhouse gas savings are achieved; calls on the Commission to publish this proposal as quickly as possible; urges the Commission to address indirect land use change impacts by applying ILUC factors on biofuels and biomass in addition to reporting obligations;
Amendment 431 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 b (new)
Paragraph 27 b (new)
27 b. Notes that authorisation, registration or planning procedures and changes to support schemes can contribute to increasing project risks leading to higher costs of capital. Emphasises that with current economic conditions and stressed capital markets, high costs of capital will considerably undermine the competitiveness of renewable energy projects. Calls on the European Commission to explore in greater detail innovative finance instruments and an increasing role of the European Investment Bank and national public institutions in financing renewable energy projects;
Amendment 432 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 c (new)
Paragraph 27 c (new)
27 c. Calls on the Commission to propose a comprehensive liability regime for all new energy investments in the internal market ;
Amendment 439 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Welcomes the Commission's declared intention to draw up guidelines on good practice and the reform of national support arrangements; calls on the Commission to produce the guidelines as soon as possible and to possibly include rewards for system services, but is convinced that good- practice guidelines are only a first step and that efforts need to be directed at winding down the national support systems, although they must notimplementation of these guidelines at Member State level will be crucial to avoid national support schemes to be retrospectively amended or cancelled because that would send out disastrous signals to investors;
Amendment 451 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 6 a (new) (after Paragraph 28)
Subheading 6 a (new) (after Paragraph 28)
Post 2020 European Framework for the promotion of Renewable Energy
Amendment 454 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Is convinced that only an EU-wide systemalso in the future technology-, regional- and segment specific support mechanisms will be needed in order to ensure an optimal exploitation of resources and suitable surfaces in proximity of consumption centres; stipulates furthermore that only an EU-wide policy 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 mtarkget 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 tcitizens-owned renewable energy production, given the benefits of community and cooperatively owned renewable schemes;
Amendment 475 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 a (new)
Paragraph 29 a (new)
29 a. States that renewable energy targets have shown success in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and improving EU's security of supply and competitiveness; calls on the European Commission to deliver on the European Union's long-term climate commitment by proposing a binding EU target of at least 45% renewable energy by 2030;
Amendment 481 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 b (new)
Paragraph 29 b (new)
29 b. Acknowledges that all scenarios explored in the Commission 'Energy Roadmap 2050' assume an increased share of renewable energy in the EU energy mix consumption of around 30% in 2030 and of at least 55% to 75% in 2050; notes, however, that none of them are based on a combined increase of a higher share of renewable energy and higher energy efficiency measures; stresses therefore that an ambitious energy efficiency and energy savings policy can lead to a higher share of renewables of up to 45% by 2030 and would allow the EU to move into a nearly full renewable economy by 2050;
Amendment 489 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Calls on the Commission to bring forward, without delay, a proposal for a European support system in which a mclimate and energy package for 2030, including binding and ambitious tarkget for renewable-energy certificates will make for EU-wide competition among the various ts on greenhouse gas reductions, energy efficiency and renewable energy in order to transform the EU into a highly efficient, nearly100% RES based echonologiesmy by 2050;
Amendment 499 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 a (new)
Paragraph 30 a (new)
30 a. Proposes to build upon initiatives such as the joint support scheme implemented by Norway and Sweden to develop step by step where appropriate regional joint supports schemes around common energy markets such as the Nord Pool;
Amendment 503 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 b (new)
Paragraph 30 b (new)
30 b. Recognizes that feed-in tariff schemes can contribute to consumer-lead development of local and regional renewable energy sources, leading to a true democratization of investments and ownership in the EU energy market;
Amendment 504 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 c (new)
Paragraph 30 c (new)
30 c. Highlights the fact that any convergence of support schemes can only be successful in a fully liberalised and integrated internal energy market; points out that a prerequisite is cost coherence for RES generation in Member States with coordinated or joint schemes, leading to the conclusion that such a coordination will only be successful on a macro- regional level, i.e. among Member States with similar geographic features and hence RES generation costs; Supports the developments of initiatives such as the pentalateral energy market to this effect;