13 Amendments of Kathleen VAN BREMPT related to 2016/0380(COD)
Amendment 81 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 15
Recital 15
(15) Member States should maintain a wide discretion to impose public service obligations on electricity undertakings in pursuing objectives of general economic interest. Member States should ensure that household customers and, where Member States deem it appropriate, small enterprises, enjoy the right to be supplied with electricity of a specified quality at clearly comparable, transparent and competitive prices. Nevertheless, public service obligations in the form of supply price regulation constitute a fundamentally distortive measure thatConsequently, Member States should be allowed to apply social or other energy policy tools to safeguard the affordability oft en leads to the accumulation of tariff deficits, limitation of consumer choice, poorer incentives for energy saving and energy efficiency investments, lower standards of service, lower levels of consumer engagement and satisfaction, restriction of compergy supply to their citizens. To ensure the affordability of energy bills of vulnerable customers, interventions in price setition as well as fewer innovative products and services on the market. Consequently, Member States should apply other policy tools, and in particular targeted social policy measures, to safeguard the affordability of electricity supply to their citizens. Interventions in price setting should only be applied in limited exng should be shifted to interventions in investments in the improvement of the energy efficiency of appliances and buildings. The design of the energy efficiency interventions must overcome the typical barriers where vulnerable consumers are confronted with (tenants, split incepntional circumstancesves, lack of financial means to pay the upfront investment costs...). A fully liberalised retail electricity market would stimulate price and non-price competition among existing suppliers and incentivise new market entries therefore improving consumers' choice and satisfaction.
Amendment 105 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 32
Recital 32
(32) Member States should encourage the modernisation of distribution networks, such as through the introduction of smart grids, which should be built in a way that encourages decentralised generation, energy storage and energy efficiency.
Amendment 119 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 42
Recital 42
(42) Distribution system operators have to cost-efficiently integrate new electricity generation especially generating installations using renewable energy sources and new loads such as heat pumps and electric vehicles. For this purpose distribution system operators should be enabled and incentivised to use services from distributed energy resources such as demand response and energy storage, in the first place based on market procedures, in order to efficiently operate their networks and avoid costly network expansions. Member States should put in place appropriate measures such as national network codes and market rules, and incentivise distribution system operators through network tariffs which do not create obstacles to flexibility or to the improvement of energy efficiency in the grid. Member States should also introduce network development plans for distribution systems in order to support the integration of generating installations using renewable energy sources, facilitate the development of storage facilities and the electrification of the transport sector, and provide to system users adequate information regarding the foreseen expansions or upgrades of the network, as currently such procedure does not exist in the majority of Member States.
Amendment 123 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 44
Recital 44
(44) Where a closed distribution system is used to ensure the optimal efficiency of an integrated energy supply requiring specific operational standards, or a closed distribution system is maintained primarily for the use of the owner of the system, it should be possible to exempt the distribution system operator from obligations which would constitute an unnecessary administrative burden because of the particular nature of the relationship between the distribution system operator and the users of the system. Industrial, commercial or shared services sites such as train station buildings, airports, hospitals, campuses of schools and universities, large camping sites with integrated facilities or chemical industry sites can include closed distribution systems because of the specialised nature of their operations.
Amendment 178 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 18
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 18
18. ‘smart metering system’ means an electronic system that can measure energy consumption, production and injection in near-real time, providing more information than a conventional meter, and can transmit and receive data for information, monitoring and control purposes, using a form of electronic communication;
Amendment 274 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 3
Article 5 – paragraph 3
3. By way of derogation from paragraphs 1 and 2, Member States which apply public interventions in price setting for the supply of electricity for energy poor or vulnerable household customers at the [OP: please insert the date of entry into force of this Directive] may continue to apply such public interventions until [OP: insert the date – five years from the entry into forctheir energy efficiency policies and interventions in the improvement of the energy efficiency of appliances and homes of these customers, have proven to result in the same downwards pressure ofn this Directive]eir energy bills. Such public interventions shall pursue a general economic interest, be clearly defined, transparent, non- discriminatory, verifiable and guarantee equal access for Union electricity companies to customers. The interventions shall not go beyond what is necessary to achieve the general economic interest which they pursue, be limited in time and be proportionate as regards their beneficiaries.
Amendment 286 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1
Article 5 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1
Amendment 406 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 11 – paragraph 1
Article 11 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall ensure that every final customer is entitled, on request, tofree to choose a dynamic electricity price contract by his supplieron the market.
Amendment 856 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 24 – paragraph 2
Article 24 – paragraph 2
2. The Commission, by means of implementing acts adopted in accordance with the advisory procedure referred to in Article 68, shall determine a common European data format and non- discriminatory and transparent procedures for accessing the data, listed under Article 23 (1), that will replace national data format and procedure adopted by Member States in accordance with paragraph 1interoperability standards. Member States shall ensure that market participants apply a common European data formatinteroperability standards or the Member State data format mentioned in article 24.1.
Amendment 932 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 32 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 a (new)
Article 32 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 a (new)
The regulatory authority shall check the coherence of the network development plan with the policies and measures and targets on energy efficiency and renewable energy incorporated in the National Energy and Climate Plan tabled in the frame of the [Governance Regulation].
Amendment 995 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 36 – paragraph 3
Article 36 – paragraph 3
Amendment 1067 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 51 – paragraph 5
Article 51 – paragraph 5
5. The regulatory authority shall examine whether the ten-year network development plan covers all investment needs identified during the consultation process, and whether it is consistent with the non-binding Union -wide ten-year network development plan ( Union -wide network development plan) referred to in [Article 27(1)(b) of recast of Regulation 714/2009 as proposed by COM(2016)861/2] and with the National Energy and Climate Plans tabled in the frame of the [Governance Regulation as proposed by COM(2016)759]. If any doubt arises as to the consistency with the Union - wide network development plan or with the National Energy and Climate plans, the regulatory authority shall consult the Agency. The regulatory authority may require the transmission system operator to amend its ten-year network development plan.
Amendment 1121 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 54 – paragraph 4
Article 54 – paragraph 4
4. The transmission system operatorMember States shall perform at regular intervals or at least every five years a public consultation for the required storage services in order to assess the potential interest of market parties to invest in such facilities and terminate its own sto. Where the public consultation indicates that third parties are able to develop, own, manage and operagte activities in case third parties can provide the service in a cost-effective mannersuch facilities at a more reasonable cost, Member States shall ensure that the activities of transmission system operators in this regard are phased out.