10 Amendments of Jolanta Emilia HIBNER related to 2012/2259(INI)
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the fact that renewable energy is being developed in the Member States with a view to meeting the targets set for 2020; calls on the Commission to propose a rational goals up to 2030, which should take into acframework for the post- 2020 period, set in the wider climate and energy count the proportion of elext and supporting, inter alia, secturicity to be generated from renewable sources, energy efficiency, clean conventional energy technologies, and CO2 storageof supply, innovation and competitiveness, thereby contributing to the promotion of a resource-efficient, safe, sustainable and low-carbon European economy;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas energy policy must, at all times, reflect a balance between the aims of supply security, competitiveness and economic and environmental viability;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Maintains that a transitional period is necessary in order to establish European support schemes; sSuggests that the Commission allow for the effects of the economic crisis and countries’ lower credit ratings, as reflected in the cutbacks – and the degree of risk involved – in renewable energy investment; stresses that a long-term European strategy could reduce the risks to those who invest in renewable energy have to be reduced by means of a clear long- term European strategy;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Points to the need for energy (including electricity) and CO2 storage technologies; maintains that funding needs to be allocated under the Horizon 2020 programme to finance the development of energy and CO2 storage technologies;
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that the Member States are currently acting independently in the promotion of RES, within administrative frameworks that differ widely, and that their potential for developing renewables is uneven on account of natural factors; calls, at the same time, on the Commission to conduct an appropriate analysis of the implications for prices paid by end consumers and for the economic competitiveness of individual Member States in the event that further actions are taken to develop RES;
Amendment 152 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Sees the need for further action to increase the social acceptance of renewable energy sources; states, at the same time, that an effective action to this end would be to establish a holistic approach to the producer/consumer – or ‘prosumer’ – who would be able to manage the process of energy generation;
Amendment 369 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22 a. Stresses that international cooperation needs to be based on a sound regulatory framework and the Union acquis on renewables, such as within the Energy Community, in order to increase the stability and reliability of such cooperation.
Amendment 445 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Welcomes the Commission’s declared intention to draw up non-binding guidelines on good practice and the reform of 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 gradually winding down the national support systems, although they must not be retrospectively amended or cancelled because that would send out disastrous signals to investors;
Amendment 467 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Is convinced that only an EU-wide system for promoting RES will offercould help to provide 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 the 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 them;
Amendment 485 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30