21 Amendments of Carolina PUNSET related to 2016/0377(COD)
Amendment 28 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2
Recital 2
(2) Well-functioning markets and systems with developed and technologically modern electricity interconnections as well as national connections, ensuring free flow of energy across borders are the best guarantee of security of supply in the Union. However, even where markets and systems function well, the risk of an electricity crisis (as a result of extreme weather conditions, malicious attacks or a fuel shortage) can never be excluded. The consequences of crisis situations often extend beyond national borders. Even where incidents start locally their effects can rapidly spread across borders. Some extreme circumstances, such as a cold spell, a heat wave or a cyber-attack, may affect entire regions at the same time.
Amendment 31 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) In a context of interlinked electricity markets and systems, crisis prevention and management cannot be considered a purely national responsibility and the potential of more efficient and less costly measures through regional cooperation should be better exploited. A common framework of rules and better coordinated procedures are needed, to ensure that Member States and other actors cooperate effectively across borders in a spirit ofand increase transparency, trust and solidarity between Member States.
Amendment 35 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5
Recital 5
(5) The System operation guidelines24 and the Network code on emergency and restoration25 constitute a detailed rulebook governing how transmission system operators and other relevant actors should act and cooperate to ensure system security. These technical rules should ensure that most electricity incidents are dealt with effectively at operational level. This Regulation focuses on electricity crisis situations that may have a larger scale and impact. It sets out what Member States should do to prevent such situations and what measures they can take should system operational rules alone no longer suffice. Even in crisis situations, however, system operation rules should continue to be fully respected and consistency between the provisions laid out in this Regulation and the Network code on emergency and restoration should be ensured. _________________ 24 Commission Regulation (EU) …/…of XXX establishing a guideline on electricity transmission system operation, OJ [...] 25 Commission Regulation (EU) …/…of XXX establishing a network code on electricity emergency and restoration, OJ [...].
Amendment 36 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6
Recital 6
(6) This Regulation sets out a common framework of rules on how to prevent, prepare for and manage electricity crisis situations, bringing more transparency in the preparation phase and during an electricity crisis and ensuring that, even in a crisis, measures are taken in a coordinated and effective manner and electricity is delivered where it is needed most. It requires Member States to cooperate at regional level, in a spirit of solidarity. It also sets out a framework for an effective monitoring of security of supply in Europe via the Electricity Coordination Group. This should result in better risk preparedness at a lower cost and with optimization of resources. It should also strengthen the internal energy market by enhancing trust and confidence across Member States and ruling out inappropriate state interventions in crisis situations, in particular avoiding non-market measures and undue curtailment of cross-border flows, thus reducing the risk of negative spill-over effects on neighbouring Member States.
Amendment 40 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10
Recital 10
(10) To facilitate prevention, information exchange and ex-post evaluation of electricity crises, Member States should designate one competent national governmental or regulatory authority as a contact point. This may be an existing or new entity.
Amendment 43 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11
Recital 11
(11) A common approach to crisis prevention and management requires, above all, that Member States use the samecommon methods and definitions to identify risks relating to the security of electricity supply, and are in a positionllowing them to effectively to compare how well they and their neighbours perform in that area. The Regulation identifies two indicators to monitor the security of electricity supply in the Union: 'expected energy non served' (EENS), expressed in GWh/year, and 'loss of load expectation' (LOLE), expressed in hours/year. These indicators are part of the European resource adequacy assessment carried out by the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO- E), pursuant to [Article 19 of the proposed Electricity Regulation]. The Electricity Coordination Group shall carry out regular monitoring of the security of supply based on the results of these indicators. The Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (Agency) should also use these indicators, when reporting on Member States' performance in the area of security of supply in its annual electricity market monitoring reports, pursuant to [Article 16 of the proposed ACER Regulation].
Amendment 45 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12
Recital 12
(12) To ensure the coherence of risk assessments that builds trust between Member States in a crisis situation a common approach to identifying risk scenarios is needed. Therefore, ENTSO-E should develop and regularly update a common methodology for risk identification in cooperation with the Agency, with ENTSO-E proposing the methodology and its updates and the Agency approving it.
Amendment 47 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13
Recital 13
(13) On the basis of this common methodology, ENTSO-E should regularly draw up and update regional crisis scenarios and identify the most relevant risks for each region such as extreme weather conditions, natural disasters, fuel shortages or malicious attacks. When considering the crisis scenario of gas fuel shortage, the risk of gas supply disruption should be assessed based on the gas supply and infrastructure disruption scenarios developed by the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Gas pursuant to Article 6.6 of the Gas Security of Supply Regulation [proposed Gas Security of Supply Regulation]. Member States shouldIn order to reinforce the regional approach to assessing risks, ENTSO-E should be able to delegate tasks related to the identification of regional crisis scenarios to regional operational centres. Member States should, on the basis of the regional crisis scenarios, establish and update their national crisis scenarios on this basis, in principle every three years. The scenarios should then provide the basis for the risk- preparedness plans. When identifying risks on national level the Member States should also describe possible risks they see in relation to the ownership of infrastructure relevant for security of supply, and possibleany measures taken, if any, to address such risks (such as general or sector- specific investment screening laws, special rights for certain shareholders, etc.), with an indication why in their view such measures are justifiedconsidered necessary and proportionate.
Amendment 55 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16
Recital 16
(16) The [proposed Electricity Regulation] prescribes the use of a common methodology for the medium to long-term European resource adequacy assessment (from 10 year-ahead to year ahead), with a view to ensuring that Member States' decisions as to possible investment needs are made on a transparent and commonly agreed basis. This assessment has a different purpose than the short-term adequacy assessments which are used to detect possible adequacy related problems in short time-frames, namely seasonal outlooks (six months ahead) and week-ahead to intraday adequacy assessments. Regarding short-term assessments, there is a need for a common approach to the way possible adequacy- related problems are detected. The ENTSO-E is to issue winter and summer outlooks to alert Member States and transmission system operators to security of supply related risks that might occur in the following six months. To improve these outlooks, they should be based on a common probabilistic methodology proposed by ENTSO-E and approved by the Agency and updated on a regular basis. In order to reinforce the regional approach to assessing risks, ENTSO-E should be able to delegate tasks related to seasonal outlooks to regional operational centres.
Amendment 59 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 18
Recital 18
(18) To ensure a common approach to crisis prevention and management, the competent authority of each Member State should, on the basis of the regional and national electricity crisis scenarios identified, draw up a risk-preparedness plan, after consulting relevant stakeholders. The plans should describe effective, proportionate and non- discriminatory measures addressing all identified crisis scenarios. Plans should provide transparency especially as regards the conditions in which non-market measures can be takenare considered necessary to mitigate crisis situations. All envisaged non-market measures should comply with the rules set out in this Regulation.
Amendment 62 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 20
Recital 20
(20) Plans should be updated regularly and made public, while ensuring confidentiality of sensitive information. To ensure that the plans are always up-to- date and effective, the competent authorities of each region should organise annual simulations in cooperation with regional operational centres to test their suitability.
Amendment 72 #
(29) An electricity crisis might extend beyond Union borders comprising also Energy Community countries, EEA countries and Switzerland. In order to ensure an efficient crisis management on borders between the Member States and, the Contracting Parties, EEA countries and Switzerland, the Union should closely cooperate with the Energy Community Contracting Pse parties when preventing, preparing for and handling an electricity crisis.
Amendment 79 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point c a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point c a (new)
(ca) 'competent authority' means a national governmental authority or a regulatory authority designated by a Member State to ensure the implementation of the measures provided for in this Regulation
Amendment 87 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2
Article 3 – paragraph 2
2. Member States shall notify the Commission without delay of the name and the contact details of the competent authority, once designated and any changes thereto.
Amendment 91 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1
Article 4 – paragraph 1
Member States shall ensure that all risks relating to security of electricity supply are assessed in accordance with the rules set out in this Regulation and Article 18 of the Electricity Regulation [proposed Electricity Regulation]. To this end, they shall cooperate with ENTSO-E and, the regional operational centres, transmission system operators, national regulatory authorities and other stakeholders, if necessary.
Amendment 180 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – point g
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – point g
(g) identify possible non-market measures to be implemented in electricity crisis situations, specifying the trigger, conditions and procedures for their implementation, assessing the degree to which the use of such measures is necessary in dealing with a crisis and indicating how they comply with the requirements set out in Article 15;
Amendment 195 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 2
Article 12 – paragraph 2
2. The regional measures to be included in the plan shall be agreed by the competent authorities of the Member States in the region concerned before incorporation in the respective national plans. At least eight months before the deadline for the adoption or the updating of the plan, the competent authorities shall report on the agreements reached to the Electricity Coordination Group. If the competent authorities concerned were not able to reach an agreement, they shall inform the Commission of the reasons for such disagreement. In such case the Commission may request the Agency to facilitate the conclusion of an agreement in consultation with ENTSO-E.
Amendment 202 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 2
Article 14 – paragraph 2
2. Where necessary and possible Member States shall offer each other assistance to prevent or mitigate an electricity crisis. Such assistance shall be subject to reasonable compensation., covering at least the cost of electricity supplied into the territory of the requesting Member State and all other relevant costs incurred when providing assistance, including, if appropriate, assistance prepared without effective activation;
Amendment 212 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 16 – paragraph 1
Article 16 – paragraph 1
1. As soon as possible and no later than six weeks after declaring anthe electricity crisis situation has ended, the competent authorities concerned, in consultation with their national regulatory authority (where it is not the competent authority) shall provide the Electricity Coordination Group and the Commission with an detailed evaluation report.
Amendment 219 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 16 – paragraph 4
Article 16 – paragraph 4
4. The competent authorities concerned shall present the results of the evaluation to the Electricity Coordination Group. and the results shall be reflected in the updates of the risk-preparedness plans;
Amendment 224 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 18 – paragraph 1
Article 18 – paragraph 1
Member States and, the Energy Community Contracting Parties, EEA countries and Switzerland are invited to closely cooperate in the process of the identification of electricity crisis scenarios and the establishment of risk-preparedness plans so that no measures are taken that endanger the security of supply of Member States, Contracting Parties or the Unregion. In this respect, Energy Community Contracting Parties, EEA countries and Switzerland may participate in the Electricity Coordination Group upon invitation by the Commission with regard to all matters by which they are concerned.