20 Amendments of Kathleen VAN BREMPT related to 2012/2259(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 4 a (new)
Citation 4 a (new)
- having regard to Directive 2012/27/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2012 on energy efficiency, amending Directives 2009/125/EC and 2010/30/EU and repealing Directives 2004/8/EC and 2006/32/EC,
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
A a. whereas the European Commission estimates in the Energy Roadmap 2050 that the share of renewable energy sources will represent by 2050 between 55 to 75% of final energy consumption in all decarbonisation scenarios, but that the share of renewable energy following 2020 will slump if no further action is taken;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas, as things stand at present, the EU is on track to achieve the target 20% share for RES in the energy mix by 2020, whereas continuous efforts are needed to achieve this target and to ensure a swift, effective and cost-efficient implementation of all energy and climate policies;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Emphasises that secure, affordable and environmentally sound energy provision is indispensable for the competitiveness of European industry; emphasises, therefore, that the energy supply system needs to be overhauled and the share of RES increased in a manner that isto ensure security of energy supply in a cost-efficient mand without prejudice to supplner; in this regards acknowledges the decreasing costs and increasing competitiveness of renewable energy stecurityhnologies;
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. NWith regard to the Union's energy and climate targets, notes that levels of public and political acceptance of renewable energy differ and that the availability of public and private financing to promote RES varies widely, underlines that the access to capital for investments is a crucial factor in the further deployment of renewable energy and urges the EU, Member States, regional and local governments to ensure that public support mechanisms are maintained where necessary and help leverage private investments;
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Is concernedNotes that, so far, only some of the renewables on the energy market are already economically competitive, althoughwhile 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 competitive, including by properly internalising all types of externalities; notes that the energy market, infrastructure and support schemes, which are currently still organised around the needs of conventional technologies, need to be transformed to stimulate the integration of renewables;
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. In order to favour the most cost- efficient integration of renewables in the European market, calls on Member States to phase out fossil and nuclear subsidies, properly implement the liberalisation packages, and address structural market deficits, such as market concentration and on the Commission to be adamant in making this happen, implement liquid intra-day, balancing and grid support services markets and on the Commission to integrate them at EU level as outlined in the EU wide target model and beyond;
Amendment 182 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Notes that the existence within the Union of approximately 170 different schemes for promoting RESsubsidies for conventional energy, low interconnection and high market concentration, 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;
Amendment 217 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10 a. Notes that the integration of renewable energy can be stimulated by using flexible distributed generation and management technologies and by empowering "prosumers" to actively participate in matching supply and demand, balancing the market and supporting the smooth functioning of the electricity systems; notes that the introduction of more advanced and smart decentralised power generation and grid management technologies will cost- effectively contribute to the integration of renewable energy into the electricity market at the EU level, by enhancing flexibility, complementing vast transmission and distribution infrastructure projects and minimising electricity transport losses;
Amendment 228 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Notes that because, in mostsome cases, renewable sources feeding energy into the grid are decentralised, remotely located and weather-dependentvariable, they require infrastructure different from that currently in place, the existing provision having been developed solely for conventional energy, therefore stresses the need for the modernisation and extension of the energy grid to accommodate the changes in production, transmission, distribution and balancing technologies;
Amendment 236 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Notes that, in order to guarantee supply security, the development of RES with fluctuating feed-in will necessitate reserves of conventional energy not previously available; recognises that the development of reserve capacity 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 the energy marketll necessitate a different, more integrated approach to the energy system by introducing more energy efficiency and more advanced, smart and flexible distributed generation and grid management systems; recognises that the development of reserve capacity entails substantial costs and that, new balancing systems, including demand response, can be commercially attractive, if the right framework is put in place and their contribution to the grid is fairly rewarded; rejects the concept of competition for subsidies;
Amendment 250 #
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; notes that, in certain Member States, supply security is being severely affected by the increased feed-in from RES; is concerned by the finding by the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO- E) that 80% of all the bottlenecks in European energy grids relate directly or indirectly to feed-in from RESwill be significantly increased by the contribution of new technologies such as smart grids and demand side management, contributing significantly to better grid management;
Amendment 257 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Notes that many of the best and mostwhile many competitive locations for RES in the EU are at a considerable distance from the centres of energy consumption; notes that which makes the use of such locations is contingent on the development of transmission systems; notes that there is by contrast a significant potential for the development of renewable heating, cooling and electricity at the local level; emphasizes that an integrated approach to the energy system, involving a view covering both heat and electricity demand and supply, is necessary to derive the most cost-effective strategy to promote RES in Europe;
Amendment 277 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Underscores the need for electricity storage solupotential of smart grids, demand side management technologies, storage and micro generations, to facilitate the integration of RES into the energy supply; re-emphasises the urgent need for further research into electricity storage;
Amendment 388 #
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 storage technologiegrid management and storage technologies, flexible distributed generation, micro-generation and especially energy efficiency solutions;
Amendment 400 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Emphasises that the Member States currently use almost 170 different types of promotion mechanism; points out that this support has lead to healthy growth but that some of the promotion systems are very costly and that, in some cases, a considerable financial burden has been placed on consumers without their having had a choice in the matter; notes that, despiteshowed flaws due to inexperience in the field, notes however that, sometimes partly thanks to these subsidies, RESrenewables have managed to become competitive vis-à-vis conventional methods of energy production only in certain areas, e.g. where the geographical conditions favour them, stresses that, to create fair market competition, remaining subsidies for conventional technologies must be phased out, as well as subsidies for renewables when no longer necessary and when all market distortions have been removed, so that all technologies can compete under equal conditions;
Amendment 413 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Emphasises that state influence hasoligopolistic market conditions and other market distortions have had the effect of making the price of electricity to consumers and industry in certain Member States relatively high; Pnotes that energy bills for households in some member states are artificially high due to unfair allocation of costs, wrong pricing mechanisms and subsidies for conventional energy technologies, 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, stresses that energy efficiency measures are crucial in this regard and are the fastest and cheapest way to get energy bills down;
Amendment 441 #
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 ofon national support arrangements; calls on the Commission to produce the guidelines as soon as possible 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 only when market maturity of technologies has been achieved; endorses that support schemes must not be retrospectively amended or cancelled because that would send out disastrous signals to investors;
Amendment 459 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. 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 2030 renewable energy target of 45% renewable energy in final energy consumption, up from the 20% by 2020 is consistent with the EU long term objective of reducing its CO2 emissions by 80 to 95% by 2050, will constitute an important milestone within theis 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 themjectory giving an crucial signal to investors and will offer the most cost-effective framework in which their full potential can be realised;
Amendment 491 #
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 market for renewable-energy certificates will make fophasing out inefficient fossil and nuclear subsidies, including all externalities currently not taken along and eliminating all other distortions of the market which will create a fair EU-wide competition among the various technologies;