51 Amendments of Lorenzo FONTANA related to 2016/0382(COD)
Amendment 170 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 16
Recital 16
(16) Electricity generation from renewable sources should be deployed at the lowest possible cost for consumers and taxpayers. When designing support schemes and when allocating support, Member States should seek to minimise the overall system cost of deployment, taking full account of the integration costs such as grid and system development needs, balancing costs, the impact on market value of non-programmability of variable renewables, the resulting energy mix, and the long term potential of technologies.
Amendment 180 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 17
Recital 17
Amendment 205 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 26
Recital 26
(26) To create opportunities for reducing the cost of meeting the Union target laid down in this Directive and to give flexibility to Member States to comply with their obligation not to go below their 2020 national targets after 2020, it is appropriate both to facilitate the consumption in Member States of energy produced from renewable sources in other Member States, and to enable Member States to count energy from renewable sources consumed in other Member States towards their own renewable energy share. For this reason, recourse to cooperation mechanisms are requirshould be facilitated to complement the obligations to open up support to projects located in other Member States. Those mechanisms include statistical transfers, joint projects between Member States or joint support schemes.
Amendment 230 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 44
Recital 44
(44) It is appropriate to allow the consumer market for renewable electricity from renewable energy sourceand gases injected into grids to contribute to the development of energy from renewable sources. Member States should therefore require electricitnergy suppliers who disclose their energy mix to final customers in accordance with Article X of Directive [Market Design], or who market energy to consumers with a reference to the consumption of energy from renewable sources, to use guarantees of origin from installations producing energy from renewable sources.
Amendment 236 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 45
Recital 45
(45) It is important to provide information on how the supported electricity isrenewable energy sources injected into electricity and gas grids are allocated to final customers. In order to improve the quality of that information to consumers, Member States should ensure that guarantees of origin are issued for all units of renewable energy produced and injected into both electricity and gas grids. In addition, with a view to avoiding double compensation, renewable energy producers already receiving financial support should not receive guarantees of origin. However, those guarantees of origin should be used for disclosure so that final consumers can receive clear, reliable and adequate evidence on the renewable origin of the relevant units of energy. Moreover, for renewable electricity and gases that received support, the guarantees of origin shcould be auctioned to the market and the revenues shcould be used to reduce public subsidies for renewable energy.
Amendment 243 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 47
Recital 47
(47) Guarantees of origin, which are currently in place for renewable electricity and renewable heating and cooling, should be extended to cover renewable gas. This would provide a consistent means of proving to final customers the origin of renewable gases such as biomethane and would facilitate greater cross-border trade in such gases. It would also enable the creation of guarantees of origin for other renewable gases such as hydrogen and bio- syngas.
Amendment 245 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 47 a (new)
Recital 47 a (new)
(47a) It is important for operators and regulators to have a long-term outlook of bio-methane development elaborated by the ENTSOG.
Amendment 247 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 48
Recital 48
(48) There is a need to support the integration of energy from renewable sources into the transmission and distribution grid and the use of energy storage systems for integrated variable production of energy from renewable sources, in particular as regards the rules regulating dispatch and access to the grid. Directive [Electricity Market Design] lays down the framework for the integration of electricity from renewable energy sources. However, this framework does not include provisions on the integration of gas from renewable energy sources into the gas gridtransport, distribution and storage infrastructures. It is therefore necessary to keep them in this Directive.
Amendment 308 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point q
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point q
(q) ‘non-food cellulosic material’ means feedstocks mainpartly composed of cellulose and hemicellulose, and having a lower lignin content than ligno-cellulosic material; it includes food and feed crop residues (such as straw, stover, husks and shells), grassy energy crops with a low starch content (such as ryegrass, switchgrass, miscanthus, giant cane and cover crops before and after main crops), industrial residues (including from food and feed crops after vegetal oils, sugars, starches and protein have been extracted), and material from biowaste;
Amendment 315 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 67
Recital 67
(67) The costs of connecting new producers of gas from renewable energy sources to the gas grids should be based on objective, transparent and non- discriminatory criteria and due account should be taken of the benefit that embedded local producers of gas from renewable sources bring to the gas gridembedded local producers of gas from renewable sources bring to the gas and electricity grids. Where electricity produced from embedded local producers of gas from renewable sources can be used to manage the production variability of variable renewable sources injected into the electricity distribution grid, the grids integration benefits should be taken into account by Member States, regulators and grid operators.
Amendment 323 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point d d
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point d d
(dd) ‘food and feed crops’ means starch- rich crops, sugars and oil crops produced on agricultural land as a main crop excluding residues, waste or ligno- cellulosic material. Intermediate crops such as catch crops and cover crops are not considered main crops;
Amendment 355 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point b
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point b
(b) ‘ambient heat’ means heat energy at a useful temperature level which is extracted or captured by means of heat pumps that need electricity or other auxiliary energy to function for heating and cooling, and which can be stored in the ambient air or indoor air of buildings, beneath the surface of solid earth or in surface water. The reported values shall be established on the basis of the same methodology used for the reporting of heat energy extracted or captured by heat pumps;
Amendment 451 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 4
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 4
For the calculation of a Member State’s gross final consumption of energy from renewable energy sources, the contribution from biofuels and bioliquids, as well as from biomass fuels consumed in transport, if produced from food or feed crops, shall be no more than 7% of final consumption of energy in road and rail transport in that Member State. This limit shall be reduced to 3,84.5% in 2030 following the trajectory set out in part A of Annex X. Member States may set a lower limit and may distinguish between different types of biofuels, bioliquids and biomass fuels produced from food and feed crops, for instance by setting a lower limit for the contribution from food or feed crop based biofuels produced from oil crops, taking into account indirect land use change.
Amendment 455 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point qq a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point qq a (new)
(qq a) 'bio-methane' means renewable gas with the same physical properties as natural gas and derived from the upgrading of biogas produced by anaerobic digestion, gasification or from power to gas by upgrading.
Amendment 460 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point uu a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point uu a (new)
(uu a) 'profile cost' means the impact on renewable electricity market value and revenue of the non-programmable timing of variable renewable generation. It is the spread between the load-weighted and the variable renewable-weighted electricity price over all time steps during a relevant period. It reflects the marginal value of electricity at different moments in time and the opportunity costs of matching variable renewable generation and load profiles through storage;
Amendment 506 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 4
Article 3 – paragraph 4
4. The Commission shall support the high ambition of Member States through an enabling framework comprising the enhanced use of Union funds, in particular financial instrument, inter alia, the exemption of their investments from the Stability and Growth Pact and the enhanced use of Union funds, especially in view of reducing the cost of capital for renewable energy projects.
Amendment 521 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 1
Article 4 – paragraph 1
1. Subject to State aid rules, in order to reach the Union target set in Article 3(1), Member States may apply support schemes. Support schemes for electricity from renewable sources shall be designed so as to avoid unnecessary distortions of electricity markets and ensure that producers and renewable self-consumers take into account the supply and demand of electricity as well as possible grid constrainall relevant system integration costs such as grid costs, balancing costs and profile costs.
Amendment 535 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 2
Article 4 – paragraph 2
2. Support for electricity from renewable sources shall be designed so as to integrate electricity from renewable sources in the electricity market and ensure that renewable energy producers are responding to market price signals and maximise their market revenues. When designing a renewable support scheme, Member States shall carry on a careful analysis of long-term evolution of system integration costs in order to evaluate the evolution of support financial needs.
Amendment 542 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Amendment 545 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 2 b (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Member States shall gradually phase out support for renewable plants granted with priority dispatch and/or lower balancing responsibilities.
Amendment 553 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 3
Article 4 – paragraph 3
3. Member States shall ensure that support for renewable electricity is granted in an open, transparent, competitive, non- discriminatory and cost-effective manner. process. A Member State may opt-out from technology-neutral auctions when it demonstrates that such auctions could result in a lower outcome with respect to other tools. Or. en (See paragraphs 126 and 127 of 2014-2020 Guidelines on State aid (2014/C 200/01).)
Amendment 590 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 4
Article 4 – paragraph 4
4. Member States shall assess the effectiveness of their support for electricity from renewable sources at least every four years. Decisions on the continuation or prolongation of support and design of new support shall be based on the results of the assessments and shall be communicated to the other Member States.
Amendment 603 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 4 a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. The Commission shall review the Guidelines on State aid for environmental protection and energy1a in order to fully incorporate general principles laid down in this Article. __________________ 1a OJ C 200, 28.6.2014, p. 1
Amendment 611 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 5
Article 5
Amendment 702 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 26 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3
Article 26 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3
Biomass fuels shall have to fulfil the sustainability and greenhouse gas emissions saving criteria set out in paragraphs 2 to 7 only if used in installations producing electricity, heating and cooling or fuels with a fuel capacity equal to or exceeding 20 MW in case of solid biomass fuels and with an electrical capacity equal to or exceeding 0.5 MW in case of gaseous biomass fuels. Member States may apply the sustainability and greenhouse gas emission saving criteria to installations with lower fuel capacity.
Amendment 717 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 15 – paragraph 3
Article 15 – paragraph 3
3. Member States shall ensure that investors have sufficient predictability of the planned support for energy from renewable sources. To this aim, Member States shall define and publish a long-term schedule in relation to expected allocation for support, covering at least the following threfive years and including for each scheme the indicative timing, the capacity, the budget expected to be allocated, as well as a consultation of stakeholders on the design of the support.
Amendment 765 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 15 – paragraph 9
Article 15 – paragraph 9
9. Member States shall remove administrative barriers topromote corporate long- term power purchase agreements to finance renewables and facilitate their uptake.
Amendment 823 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 19 – paragraph 1
Article 19 – paragraph 1
1. For the purposes of proving to final customers the share or quantity of energy from renewable sources in an energy supplier’s energy mix and in the energy supplied to consumers under contracts marketed with reference to the consumption of energy from renewable sources , Member States shall ensure that the origin of energy produced from renewable energy sources can be guaranteed as such within the meaning of this Directive, in accordance with objective, transparent and non- discriminatory criteria. Guarantees of origin shall include any relevant information referred to sustainability and GHG emissions saving criteria of renewable energy.
Amendment 830 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 19 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
Article 19 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
To that end, Member States shall ensure that a guarantee of origin is issued for every unit of renewable energy injected into both electricity and gas grids and in response to a request from a producer of energy from renewable sources that are not injected into electricity and gas grids. Member States may arrange for guarantees of origin to be issued for non-renewable energy sources. Issuance of guarantees of origin may be made subject to a minimum capacity limit. A guarantee of origin shall be of the standard size of 1 MWh. No more than one guarantee of origin shall be issued in respect of each unit of energy produced.
Amendment 847 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 19 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 3
Article 19 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 3
Member States shall ensurmay provide that no guarantees of origin are issued to a producer that receives financial support from a support scheme for the same production of energy from renewable sources. Member States shallmay issue such guarantees of origin and transfer them to the market by auctioning them. The revenues raised as a result of the auctioning shall be used to offset the costs of renewables support.
Amendment 855 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 19 – paragraph 3
Article 19 – paragraph 3
3. For the purposes of paragraph 1, guarantees of origin for renewable electricity shall be valid with respect to the calendar year in which the energy unit is produced. Six months after the end of each calendar year, Member States shall ensure that all guarantees of origin from the previous calendar year that have not been cancelled shall expire. Expired guarantees of origin shall be included by Member States in the calculation of the residual energy mix.
Amendment 857 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 19 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 19 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. For the purposes of paragraph 1, guarantees of origin issued with respect to any unit of bio-methane injected into the gas grid shall be valid for five calendar years starting from the calendar year in which the energy unit is produced. Six months after the end of the fifth calendar year, Member States shall ensure that all guarantees of origin from the previous calendar year that have not been cancelled shall expire. Expired guarantees of origin shall be included by Member States in the calculation of the residual energy mix.
Amendment 859 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 19 – paragraph 4
Article 19 – paragraph 4
4. For the purposes of disclosure referred to in paragraphs 8 and 13, Member States shall ensure that guarantees of origin are cancelled by energy companies by 30 June of the year following the last valid calendar year in relation to which the guarantees of origin are issued.
Amendment 866 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 19 – paragraph 7 – subparagraph 1 – point f a (new)
Article 19 – paragraph 7 – subparagraph 1 – point f a (new)
(fa) whether ant to what extent the energy source from which the energy was produced met sustainability and GHG emission saving criteria referred to in Article 26.
Amendment 873 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 19 – paragraph 8
Article 19 – paragraph 8
8. Where an electricitnergy supplier is required to prove the share or quantity of energy from renewable sources in its energy mix for the purposes of Article 3 of Directive 2009/72/EC, it shall do so by using guarantees of origin. Likewise, guarantees of origin created pursuant to Article 14(10) of Directive 2012/27/EC shall be used to substantiate any requirement to prove the quantity of electricity produced from high-efficiency cogeneration. Member States shall ensure that transmission losses are fully taken into account when guarantees of origin are used to demonstrate consumption of renewable energy or electricity from high efficiency cogeneration.
Amendment 875 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 26 – paragraph 7 – point d
Article 26 – paragraph 7 – point d
Amendment 886 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 26 – paragraph 8
Article 26 – paragraph 8
Amendment 900 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 20 – paragraph 1
Article 20 – paragraph 1
1. Where relevant, Member States shall assess the need to extend existing gas network infrastructures to facilitate the integration of gas from renewable energy sources.
Amendment 901 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 20 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Article 20 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 (new)
The ENTSOG shall include in the Ten- Year Network Development Plan (TYNDP) a forecast for bio-methane and other renewable gases, notably hydrogen and bio-syngas, taking into account Member States' Integrated National Energy and Climate Plans, national support schemes and any other relevant national information. The TYNDP shall also identify the grid investment needs related to bio-methane development.
Amendment 923 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 27 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 27 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. For bio-methane, mass balance system obligations shall apply from the original feedstock to the point of injection into the gas grid. Guarantees of origin for bio-methane injected into the grid shall contain information on the sustainability and GHG emission saving criteria set out in Article 26(2) to 26(7). Member States shall make guarantees of origin for bio-methane injected into the grid the only accepted mean for origin disclosure purposes.
Amendment 951 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 21 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point d a (new)
Article 21 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point d a (new)
(da) are charged of the full costs they generate by feeding the self-generated renewable electricity into the grid, which include, inter alia, network charges and policy costs.
Amendment 999 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 22 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 – point b
Article 22 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 – point b
(b) at least 51% of the shareholders or members with voting rights of the entity are natural persons or municipalities;
Amendment 1003 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 22 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 – point c
Article 22 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 – point c
(c) at least 51% of the shares or participation rights of the entity are owned by local members, i.e. representatives of local authorities, local public and local private socio- economic interests or citizen having a direct interest in the community activity and its impacts;
Amendment 1007 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 22 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 – point d
Article 22 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 – point d
(d) at least 51% of the seats in the board of directors or managing bodies of the entity are reserved to local members, i.e. representatives of local authorities, local public and local private socio- economic interests or citizens having a direct interest in the community activity and its impacts;
Amendment 1075 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex X
Annex X
Amendment 1176 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 25 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Article 25 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
The minimum share shall be at least equal to 1.5% in 2021, increasing up to at least 6.8% in 2030, following the trajectory set out in part B of Annex X. Within this total share, the contribution of advanced biofuels and biogas produced from feedstock listed in part A of Annex IX shall be at least 0.5% of the transport fuels supplied for consumption or use on the market as of 1 January 2021, increasing up to at least 3.6% by 2030, following the trajectory set out in part C of Annex X.
Amendment 1208 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 25 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 4 – point b – paragraph 2
Article 25 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 4 – point b – paragraph 2
For the calculation of the numerator, the contribution from biofuels and biogas produced from feedstock included in part B of Annex IX shall be limited to 1.75% of the energy content of transport fuels supplied for consumption or use on the market and the contribution of fuels supplied in the aviation and maritime sector shall be considered to be respectively 2 times and 1.2 times their energy content.
Amendment 1222 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 25 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2
Article 25 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2
The share of renewable energy in liquid and gaseous transport fuels shall be determined on the basis of the share of renewable energy in the total energy input used for the production of the fuelransport fuel. An equivalent amount of guarantees of origin issued in accordance with Article 19 shall be cancelled.
Amendment 1225 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 25 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 3 – point a – paragraph 1
Article 25 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 3 – point a – paragraph 1
When electricity is used for the production of renewable liquid and gaseous transport fuels of non-biological origin, either directly or for the production of intermediate products, either the averagthe share of electricity from renewable energy sources in the Union or the share of electricity from renewable energy sources inshall be determined according to the camountry of production, as measured two years before the year in question, may be used to determine the share of renewable energy. In both cases, an equivalent amount of guarantees of origincancelled guarantees of origin of renewable electricity issued in accordance with Article 19 shall be cancelled.
Amendment 1246 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 25 – paragraph 7
Article 25 – paragraph 7
7. By 31 December 2025, in the context of the biennial assessment of progress made pursuant to Regulation [Governance], the Commission shall assess whether the obligation laid down in paragraph 1 effectively stimulates innovation and the effective availability of innovative fuels on the market and promotes greenhouse gas savings in the transport sector, and whether the applicable greenhouse gas savings requirements for biofuels and biogas are appropriate. The Commission shall, if appropriate, present a proposal to modify the obligation laid down in paragraph 1.
Amendment 1284 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex VII – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 – indent 1
Annex VII – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 – indent 1
- Qusable = the estimated total usable heat delivered by heat pumptransferred to indoor or outdoor ambient by heat pumps used for heating or cooling purposes fulfilling the criteria referred to in Article 7 (4), implemented as follows: Only heat pumps for which SPF > 1,15 * 1/η shall be taken into account,