18 Amendments of Kathleen VAN BREMPT related to 2011/2034(INI)
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas our major energy challenges are confronting climate change, strengthening energy autonomy, the need for universal access to secure and sustainable energy which is affordable for all while reducing fossil fuel imports, and achieving a competitive internal energy market and ensuring universal access to sustainable, affordable and secure energy,
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas our major energy challenges are confronting climate change, strengthening energy autonomy while reducing fossil fuel imports and overall energy use, achieving a competitive internal energy market and ensuring universal access to sustainable, affordable and secure energy,
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas a lack of timely modernisation and adjustment of the Union’s energy infrastructure to a more sustainable energy production and consumption model could jeopardise the capacity to achieve the energy and climate objectives for 2020 and undermine the EU’s 2050 long-term objective of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 80 to 95% by 2050, and the objective of increasing the share of renewable energy in energy supply to 95% by 2050,
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas energy efficiency offers a powerful and cost-effective tool for achieving a sustainable energy future and, by reducing energy demand, can partially reduce the need for investment in energy infrastructure,
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
Recital L
L. whereas market-based tools must remainwill be the basis for financing energy infrastructure, and whereas a limited amount ofbut public finance maywill also be required to fund certain projects which are not strictly commercially viable,,
Amendment 216 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Stresses that ACER as well as National Regulatory Authorities (NRAs) should, before approving infrastructure investments, establish concrete guidelines to verify on a project-by-project basis whether infrastructure requirements could be met more cost-effectively through demand-side energy efficiency measures;
Amendment 267 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Considers that the development of infrastructure for unconventional gas sources has not yet been given the necessary attenneeds to be submitted to a thorough evaluation by the Commission as regards to legal issues, life cycle assessment and environmental impacts; asks the Commission to conduct a thorough evaluation on, before any new decisions or actions are taken regarding this issue;
Amendment 278 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Stresses the importance of integrated energy infrastructure planning for agricultural and small-scale rural energy sources, so as to favour decentralised energy production and rural development, and emphasises the importance of priority access to the grid for renewables as outlined in EU Directive 2009/28/EC;
Amendment 281 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Emphasises the importance of infrastructure at distribution level and the role that prosumers and distribution system operators (DSOs) play during the integration of decentralised energy products into the system; and demand-side efficiency measures into the system; underlines that not giving a higher priority to demand- side management would considerably undermine the integration of decentralised energy sources and would undermine the achievement of overall energy policy objectives;
Amendment 285 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Emphasises the importance of infrastructure at distribution level and the important role that prosumers and distribution system operators (DSOs) play during the integration of decentralised energy products into the system; stresses the potential of decentralised energy generation and urges the Commission to take account of this and encourage and facilitate its further development;
Amendment 302 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Considers that thealls on the Commission to draw up a mid-term report evaluating CO2 capture and transport infrastructure projects developed by the Commission so far should continue; calls on the Commission to draw up a mid-term report evaluating the progress achieved with EU-funded projects in this areaand subsidised by the EU;
Amendment 307 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Urges the Commission to critically assess and review, wherever necessary, the figures for investment needs given in the communication on energy infrastructure priorities, particularly in relation to demand reduction through energy efficiency measures, and asks it to report to the Council and to the Parliament on the investments likely to be needed;
Amendment 328 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Believes that smart grids and energy management solutions offer a unique opportunity to boost the competitiveness of European industry, with particular reference to SMEs; calls on the Commission to present a new proposal which includes a binding requirement to deploy smart meters for all non-residential customers by 2014; considers that, when installing smart meters for use by domestic consumers, they must clearly and primarily be of utility and benefit to final consumers and that measures must be taken to enable final consumers to take proper advantage of them (displays on the meters, awareness-raising campaigns, clear invoicing, etc.);
Amendment 356 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Points out that Member States are already obliged to roll out smart meters for at least 80% of their final consumers by 2020; stresses that Member States should support a sufficient number of pilot projects for residential consumers in order to boost the innovation process, as provided for in the third energy market package; calls for clear rules concerning privacy and data protection to be established in accordance with existing EU law; stresses that benefits to the consumer are a necessary condition for the installation of smart meters and that they must also be clearly tangible for the consumer;
Amendment 414 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 – indent 3
Paragraph 24 – indent 3
– they must be in line with climate, energy efficiency and environmental objectives,
Amendment 458 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 – indent 4 a (new)
Paragraph 25 – indent 4 a (new)
– the extent to which the use and integration of renewable energy sources is encouraged,
Amendment 508 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
Paragraph 34
34. Notes that grid investments are cyclical and should be viewed in a historical perspective; points out that a large amount of the infrastructure built over the past decades to interconnect centralised power plants will become obsolete in the coming years; points out that society will expect the cost of deploying new infrastructure to be optimised, emphasises therefore the need to accurately ascertain infrastructure requirements and avoid lock-in to surplus capacity by taking the cost-effective energy efficiency potential fully into account;
Amendment 519 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
Paragraph 35
35. Stresses that the bulk of the cost of infrastructure investments needs to be financed by the market and based on the ‘user pays’ principle; takes the view that where key projectse importance of effective functioning of the market, in which context a large part of the cost of infrastructure investments needs to be financed by the market; observes, however, that market forces alone will not be sufficient, particularly to finance key projects which in the short term are not attractive to the market but theirwhose development is necessary in order to achieve the stated objectives, public funding should be used to lever private investmenand considers that it is therefore crucial that the authorities should provide the requisite financial support by setting up an innovative mix of financial instruments;