50 Amendments of Kathleen VAN BREMPT related to 2016/2058(INI)
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 7 a (new)
Citation 7 a (new)
– having regard to the Commission communication entitled 'Roadmap for moving to a competitive low-carbon economy in 2050,
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 7 b (new)
Citation 7 b (new)
– having regard to its resolution of 5 February 2014 on a 2030 framework for climate and energy policies,
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 8 a (new)
Citation 8 a (new)
– having regard to the European Parliament resolution of 9 July 2015 on resource efficiency: moving towards a circular economy,
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 8 b (new)
Citation 8 b (new)
– having regard to the Paris Agreement made in December 2015 at the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP 21) to the UNFCCC,
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas 50% of the energyfinal energy demand is used for heating and cooling in the EU is primary energyof which 80% is used in buildings;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. reminds that 50% of our necessary cuts in emissions, to live up to our COP21 engagements, must come from energy efficiency, and given that buildings consume 40% of final energy and cause 36% of CO2 emissions, stresses that lowering energy demand in buildings is the most direct and cost-effective way to actually reach our climate ambitions, meanwhile boosting the EU's energy security and re-industrialisation;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas every 1% increase in energy savings reduces gas imports by 2.6% [1]; [1] European Commission (2014) Communication Energy Efficiency and its contribution to energy security and the 2030 Framework for climate and energy policy (COM/2014/0520 final), retrieved from http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal- content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex%3A52014DC 0520
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. given the huge share buildings represent in the total final energy consumption, stresses the crucial role a higher energy efficiency in buildings and demand response programmes can play in balancing energy demand and topping off peak demand, which leads to reducing overcapacity and the lowering of generation, operational and transport costs;
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas – although there is a huge potential for renewable energy on a European, national, local and micro-level – the share of RES energy in heating and cooling in the Member States is insufficient;
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. points out that the demand for heating and cooling highly depends on local circumstances and that 90% of renewable energy is connected to the distribution grid, implicating the importance of the local dimension and distribution grids when talking about heating and cooling;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. stresses that the focus on the local dimension should also be reflected in infrastructural decisions, preparing the grid for more heating and cooling based on renewable energy at local and micro level, improving sustainability and efficiency and lowering costs and transportation losses;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the energy efficiency of buildings that have been through a complex thermomodernisation process for the sake of thermal comfort or comfort cooling also depends on the use of adequate energy and distribution systems that provide for the effective conversion and transportation of energy from primary sources, for instance micro-generation of renewable energy and district heating and cooling systems can strongly reduce energy and transportation losses;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph -1 (new)
Paragraph -1 (new)
-1. Points out the necessity to take along specific measures for heating and cooling when revising the energy efficiency directive (2012/27/EU) and the renewable energy directive (2009/28/EC) as well as the energy performance of buildings directive (2010/31/EU);
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph -1 a (new)
Paragraph -1 a (new)
-1a. Calls for specific sustainable heating and cooling strategies to be developed at national level, giving special attention to combined heat and power, cogeneration, district heating and cooling preferably based on renewables, as is stated in art 14 of the EED (2012/27/EU);
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph -1 b (new)
Paragraph -1 b (new)
-1b. When it comes to heating and cooling, points out the importance of respecting the principles of energy efficiency first and the trias energetica (reduction of demand, utilisation of renewables, optimization of fossil fuel systems) and acting accordingly when making policy and investment decisions;
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph -1 c (new)
Paragraph -1 c (new)
-1c. Stresses that energy efficiency measures should be given priority to, or at least treated on the same footage with, generating capacity when deciding on infrastructural and heating and cooling investments;
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph -1 d (new)
Paragraph -1 d (new)
-1d. Points out that improving the thermal efficiency of buildings by, amongst others, insulating, can reduce the energy demand in a building up to 70% according to studies; therefore, the optimal first step is often to reduce the energy and heating and cooling demand up to the cost-optimal level, before or combined with optimizing the heating and cooling systems, as the cheapest and most sustainable form of energy is still the one that is not used;
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Underlines that 85% of the energy consumption within a building is required for space heating and domestic hot water and that it is therefore necessary to enable consumers to accelerate the modernisation of their old and inefficient heating systems in Europe in order to deliver at least 20% energy efficiency gains with available technologies, including renewable heating systems;
Amendment 153 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Highlights the fundamental role of RES, and in particularsuch as photovoltaic cells and solar panels and geothermal energy, in the heating of water and the provision of thermal comfort in buildings on a local or micro level, in conjunction with thermal storage facilities that can be used at night;
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Highlights that hybrid heating systems, which provide heat from two or more energy sources, can facilitate a growing role for renewable heating, in particular in existing buildings where hybrid heating systems can be introduced with limited refurbishment needs;
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Emphasises that existing decentralised and district heating systems both share the challenge to improve efficiency and include a greater share of renewable energy sources, as fossil fuels account for about 80% of the fuel mix in both existing decentralised and district heating systems;
Amendment 170 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Considers that the use of appropriate architectural solutions and urban design principles, such as urban level network solutions and sustainable district heating and cooling, in the planning of whole residential areas should be the basis for energy-efficient and low- emission construction in the various climate zones in Europe;
Amendment 186 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on local authorities to take the necessary steps towardsPoints out the local character and potential for heating and cooling and calls on local authorities to map local heating and cooling demands as well as available renewable and industrial heating and cooling sources in order to promote the thermomodernisation of existing public or residential buildings with low thermal comfort or comfort cooling in the most sustainable, cost-optimal and efficient way;
Amendment 200 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on the European Commission to bring forward concrete proposals to increase the modernisation rate of installed heating systems in existing buildings in its review of the Directive on the Energy Performance of Buildings (2010/31/EU);
Amendment 202 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Calls on the European Commission to prioritise the modernization of the existing building stock in the EU and the – largely inefficient – installed heating systems, in the review of the Directive on the Energy Performance of Buildings (2010/31/EU);
Amendment 211 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses that in dense urban agglomerations it is imperative that the use of individual heating systems that depend on fossil fuels be restricted and replaced with large-scale local cogeneration systems that produce heat and electricitystate-of-the-art individual or district heating and cooling systems, which are more efficient and preferably renewables based;
Amendment 214 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses that in dense urban agglomerations it is imperative that the use ofinefficient individual and district heating systems that depend on fossil fuels be restricted and replaced with large-scale local cogeneration systems that produce heat and electricityare modernised with state-of-the- art heating technologies to shift to high- efficiency and renewable alternatives;
Amendment 220 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Highlights the possibilities of thermal storage systems to enable heating and cooling generated in a sustainable way to be stored in thermal forms when not needed, and transported and used in cases of peak demand, hereby helping to balance the grid, facilitate the integration of renewables, lower energy production, imports and prices;
Amendment 221 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Takes the view that a revised Directive on the Energy Performance of Buildings (2010/31/EU) should require EU Member States to introduce an energy labelling system for installed heating appliances to raise consumers' awareness about the efficiency of their installed heating systems;
Amendment 227 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Calls for the development of a heating and cooling energy demand indicator for buildings at a national level;
Amendment 228 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 c (new)
Paragraph 7 c (new)
7c. Calls for a strategic approach to reduce the CO2 emissions of industrial heating and cooling demands, by improving efficiency of the processes, substituting fossil fuels by sustainable sources and integrating industries in the surrounding thermal energy environment;
Amendment 229 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 d (new)
Paragraph 7 d (new)
7d. Highlights the huge potential of clustering energy and resource flows to save primary energy use, especially in industrial environments, where, according to the cascading system, excess heat or cold from one process can be re-used in another one which demands less extreme temperatures, and, where possible, up to heating and cooling buildings via district heating systems;
Amendment 236 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Notes that outdated heating plants with low energy efficiency should be replaced by small, environmentally- friendly CHP plants that use natural gas or other green fuelalternatives;
Amendment 272 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Expresses the view that heat storage facilities, for example in the form of thermally insulated water tanks that e.g. use electric resistance to stay hot overnight (can help to switch electricity demand outside the hours of peak demand) and thereby improve the quality of electricity supply, could play a very important rolein doing so, facilitate the integration of renewable electricity in theating grid;
Amendment 280 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Takes the view that the waste heat and cold obtained through industrial processes and cogeneration in the production of electric energy in conventional power plants and from residential buildings using recuperative methods should play a much greater role in heating and cooling than before;
Amendment 288 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Stresses that industrial waste heat and cold should be recognized and encouraged through research. Recognition and valorisation of the sector would be a great opportunity for investing and innovating in this technique.
Amendment 292 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Member States to use legal and economic means to accelerate the gradual phasing-out of outdated solid-fuel furnaces with an energy efficiency level of less than 80% and to replace them, where possible, with efficient, sustainable heating systems at local level (such as district heating systems) or micro level (such as geothermal and solar systems);
Amendment 315 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the Member States to take administrative steps to ban the use of outdated furnaces that generate ‘low height’ emissions – releasing into the atmosphere natural pyrolytic gases from incomplete combustion, NOx, soot and fly ash dispersed by convection – in the heating of agglomerations and to promote the use of sustainable and efficient alternatives;
Amendment 346 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Emphasizes the potential of hot water storage to better integrate variable renewable energy by providing another option for demand side flexibility;
Amendment 360 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Takes the view that research under the Horizon 2020 framework programme should cover the development of sustainable heating and cooling solutions as well as waste heat and waste cold valorisation technologies, new materials with maximum thermal conductivity (heat exchangers), minimum conductivity – i.e. maximum thermal resistance (thermal insulation), and maximum heat accumulation rates (heat stores);
Amendment 364 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Takes the view that research should be carried out under the Horizon 2020 framework programme on sustainable and efficient heating and cooling systems and materials, such as small-scale renewable generation and storage solutions, district heating and cooling systems, cogeneration, insulation materials and innovative materials such as structural window panes that let in high levels of short-wave radiation (sunlight) from outside and let out only a minimum of the long-wave thermal radiation that would otherwise escape to the outside;
Amendment 375 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Highlights that innovations such as smart heating controls help consumers to better understand their consumption patterns and adjust the operation of their heating system accordingly in order to operate more efficiently, contributing over the longer term to a cultural shift in how people use energy;
Amendment 382 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Calls for specific attention in the existing and new European funding programmes, such as the EFSI, for innovative and sustainable heating and cooling projects such as micro-generation and storage, refurbishments and development of district heating and especially for clustering small-scale projects into larger, bankable clusters; points out in this regard the importance of well-functioning technical assistance;
Amendment 384 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Underlines the importance of standardized thermal energy audits as well as the cost-effectiveness of remediating problems with industrial insulation to save energy and reduce emissions. Industrial energy costs could be further reduced with investments in existing and proven sustainable technologies.
Amendment 411 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Takes the view that consumersthe Member States must make sure, amongst others via information campaigns, one-stop-shops, joint purchases and clustering of individual projects, that consumers, especially the muost bvulnerable, are made fully aware and have access tof the technological and economic benefits of new energy efficiency products and services and heating and cooling systems, so as to enable them to make the best possible choices, sign up to joint or individual projects, and grasp the economic, health and quality of life benefits of better heating and cooling in their homes;
Amendment 421 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Points out the lack of awareness of consumers about the often low performance of their current heating and cooling systems and the ways in which they can improve their situation, stresses in that sense the need for information, awareness raising and guidance campaigns to inform and incentivise consumers to modernise their installations and connect to collective heating and cooling solutions as well as apply for joint purchasing initiatives;
Amendment 426 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Amendment 429 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 b (new)
Paragraph 26 b (new)
26b. Urges Member States to introduce an energy labelling system for installed heating and cooling installations to make consumers aware of the energy performance of their installations and to boost the replacement of old, polluting systems by efficient and more sustainable options;
Amendment 431 #
26c. Urges the Commission and the Member States to come up with specific strategies to tackle the ever growing problem of energy poverty in order to help all consumers, especially the most vulnerable, to ameliorate their housing, heating and cooling conditions, on an individual or collective basis, whether they are home owners or tenants;