15 Amendments of Demetris PAPADAKIS related to 2021/0218(COD)
Amendment 37 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 1 a (new)
Recital 1 a (new)
(1a) The European Commission and Member States should support regional and local commitments to achieve the European Green Deal objectives, notably to ensure greater deployment of renewable energy sources. Networks, which facilitate multilevel governance arrangements, play an essential role in increasing local ambition and action at local level, involving citizens and local actors.
Amendment 42 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 2
Recital 2
(2) Renewable energy plays a fundamental role in delivering the European Green Deal and for achieving climate neutrality by 2050, given that the energy sector contributes over 75% of total greenhouse gas emissions in the Union. By reducing those greenhouse gas emissions, renewable energy also contributes to tackling environmental-related challenges such as biodiversity and ecosystems loss.
Amendment 44 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 2 a (new)
Recital 2 a (new)
(2a) Renewable Energy Communities are a key tool for promoting the widespread use of renewable energy sources and achieving a decentralised energy system while ensuring local economic and social benefits. Initiatives for collective self-generation and collective self-consumption in buildings and at district level should be facilitated by reducing permitting, administrative difficulties and burdens, or other factors inhibiting grid access, grid fees, and enhancing the deployment of technologies such as solar thermal and photovoltaic, wind and geothermal technologies.
Amendment 53 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 3 a (new)
Recital 3 a (new)
(3a) The Member States shall carry out an assessment of the barriers to the development of renewable energy communities as required by Art. 22 of the Directive 2018/2001. The European Commission may provide assistance to Member States in order to ensure timely transposition of the Directive and coherence with national legal framework.
Amendment 67 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 5 a (new)
Recital 5 a (new)
(5a) Since energy poverty affects around 8% of the population of the Union, renewable energy policies have an essential role to play in addressing energy poverty and consumer vulnerability ;
Amendment 68 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 5 b (new)
Recital 5 b (new)
Amendment 69 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) Member States’ cooperation to promote renewable energy, which may involve local and regional authorities, can take the form of statistical transfers, support schemes or joint projects. It allows for a cost-efficient deployment of renewable energy across Europe and contributes to market integration. Despite its potential, cooperation, especially in cross border regions, has been very limited, thus leading to suboptimal results in terms of cost effectiveness and efficiency in increasing renewable energy. Smart grid projects in border regions, including cross border electricity exchanges at medium-voltage level, can provide high added value to the cross- border approach as they allow for greater resource optimisation, flexibility and resilience of electricity energy systems, ensuring wider societal benefits to the local communities involved; Member States should therefore be obliged to test cooperation through implementing a pilot project. Projects financed by national contributions under the Union renewable energy financing mechanism established by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/129414 would meet this obligation for the Member States involved. _________________ 14 Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1294 of 15 September 2020 on the Union renewable energy financing mechanism (OJ L 303, 17.9.2020, p. 1).
Amendment 70 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 7 a (new)
Recital 7 a (new)
(7a) Local and regional authorities (LRAs) play a very important role in an integrated and decentralised energy system. The Commission shall support LRAs, including in insular territories, with regard to working across borders by assisting them in setting up cooperation mechanisms. Closer cooperation between the EU and Member States and increased investment in Research and Development and Innovation (RDI) will provide the significant added value needed to meet the objectives of this Directive across the EU.
Amendment 71 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 7 b (new)
Recital 7 b (new)
(7b) Accurate data and information are necessary to ensure the transition to an energy system based on renewable technologies at the national, regional and local level. This data can be obtained through different sources ranging from smart devices such as applications up to earth observation system such as Copernicus.
Amendment 73 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 8
Recital 8
(8) The Offshore Renewable Energy Strategy introduces an ambitious objective of 300 GW of offshore wind and 40 GW of ocean energy across all the Union’s sea basins by 2050. To ensure this step change, Member States , or their competent regional or local authorities, will need to work together across borders at sea-basin level. Member States should therefore jointly define and allocate adequate space in their maritime spatial plan for the amount of offshore renewable generation and related infrastructure to be deployed within each sea basin by 2050, with intermediate steps in 2030 and 2040. These objectives should be reflected in the updated national energy and climate plans that will be submitted in 2023 and 2024 pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2018/1999. In defining the amount, Member States should take into account the offshore renewable energy potential of each sea basin, environmental and biodiversity protection, climate adaptation and other uses of the sea, as well as the Union’s decarbonisation targets. In addition, Member States should increasingly consider the possibility of combining offshore renewable energy generation with transmission lines interconnecting several Member States, in the form of hybrid projects or, at a later stage, a more meshed grid. This would allow electricity to flow in different directions, thus maximising socio- economic welfare, optimising infrastructure expenditure and enabling a more sustainable usage of the sea.
Amendment 76 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 9 a (new)
Recital 9 a (new)
(9a) Member States shall avoid any retroactive change to renewable energy support schemes. Therefore, Member States shall also ensure legal certainty for consumers and investors to establish a strong and transparent legal framework.
Amendment 84 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 11 a (new)
Recital 11 a (new)
(11a) Member States should therefore guarantee to support proactive policies that focus especially on low-income households at risk of energy poverty or in social housing;
Amendment 89 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 14
Recital 14
(14) Infrastructure development for district heating and cooling networks should be stepped up and steered towards harnessing a wider range of renewable heat and cold sources in an efficient and flexible way in order to increase the deployment of renewable energy and deepen energy system integration. It is therefore appropriate to update the list of renewable energy sources that district heating and cooling networks should increasingly accommodate and require the integration of thermal energy storage as a source of flexibility, greater energy efficiency and more cost-effective operation, such support should be provided in a form that focuses on the inclusion of low-income households in order to address energy poverty.
Amendment 111 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 29
Recital 29
(29) The use of renewable fuels and renewable electricity in transport can contribute to the decarbonisation of the Union transport sector in a cost-effective manner, and improve, amongst other, energy diversification in that sector while promoting innovation, growth and jobs in the Union economy and reducing reliance on energy imports. With a view to achieving the increased target for greenhouse gas emission savings defined by the Union, the level of renewable energy supplied to all transport modes in the Union should be increased. Expressing the transport target as a greenhouse gas intensity reduction target would stimulate an increasing use of the most cost-effective and performing fuels, in terms of greenhouse gas savings, in transport. In addition, a greenhouse gas intensity reduction target would stimulate innovation and set out a clear benchmark to compare across fuel types and renewable electricity depending on their greenhouse gas intensity. Complementary to this, increasing the level of the energy-based target on advanced biofuels and biogas and introducing a target for renewable fuels of non-biological origin would ensure an increased use of the renewable fuels with smallest environmental impact in transport modes and regions that are difficult to electrify. The achievement of those targets should be ensured by obligations on fuel suppliers as well as by other measures included in [Regulation (EU) 2021/XXX on the use of renewable and low-carbon fuels in maritime transport - FuelEU Maritime and Regulation (EU) 2021/XXX on ensuring a level playing field for sustainable air transport]. Dedicated obligations on aviation fuel suppliers should be set only pursuant to [Regulation (EU) 2021/XXX on ensuring a level playing field for sustainable air transport].
Amendment 116 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 31
Recital 31
(31) The Union’s renewable energy policy aims to contribute to achieving the climate change mitigation objectives of the European Union in terms of the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. In the pursuit of this goal, it is essential to also contribute to wider environmental objectives, and in particular the prevention of biodiversity and ecosystems loss, which is negatively impacted by the indirect land use change associated to the production of certain biofuels, bioliquids and biomass fuels. Contributing to these climate and environmental objectives constitutes a deep and longstanding intergenerational concern for Union citizens and the Union legislator. As a consequence, the changes in the way the transport target is calculated should not affect the limits established on how to account toward that target certain fuels produced from food and feed crops on the one hand and high indirect land-use change-risk fuels on the other hand. In addition, in order not to create an incentive to use biofuels and biogas produced from food and feed crops in transport, Member States should continue to be able to choose whether count them or not towards the transport target. If they do not count them, they may reduce the greenhouse gas intensity reduction target accordingly, assuming that food and feed crop-based biofuels save 50% greenhouse gas emissions, which corresponds to the typical values set out in an annex to this Directive for the greenhouse gas emission savings of the most relevant production pathways of food and feed crop-based biofuels as well as the minimum savings threshold applying to most installations producing such biofuels.