32 Amendments of David BORRELLI related to 2016/2058(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 a (new)
Citation 5 a (new)
– having regard to the Paris Agreement of December 2015 concluded at the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP 21) to the UNFCCC;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas 50% of the energy used for heating and cooling in the EU is primary energy and whereas heating & cooling represents on average around 70% of energy consumption in buildings;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas for the use of progressiveadvanced and integrated heating or cooling systems in existing buildings presumably means that those buildings will first have to undergo a thorough process of thermomodernisation comprising, inter alia, reinforcement of outer insulation, improvement the storage capacity of building fabric, modernisation of doors and window frames, and upgrade of ventilation, heating, cooling and hot water installations;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas natural gas is becoming ever more important in heating given that the chemical energy stored in it can be convergas (especially natural gas and biomethane, due to the justified objections that a substantial part of the population and the scientific community raises against the extraction and the use of shale gas) is becoming more important in heating thanks to their efficient combustion and their comparatively easy distribution and storage and that emissions of harmful substances related into theat energy highly efficiently combustion of other fossil fuels other than gas can be reduced;
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. highlights that the ongoing energy transition implies that the EU moves away from a fossil-fuel based and centralised energy system towards one which is capillary distributed across the whole territory, dynamic and scalable, future- oriented and renewables-based;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G b (new)
Recital G b (new)
Gb. whereas the combustion of gas, compared with other fossil fuels, releases a substantial lesser amount of health- damaging and environment-damaging substances, although close attention must be paid to the comprehensive losses of gas throughout the cycle of extraction, storage and distribution, due to the strong greenhouse effect of methane;
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Underlines that energy efficiency, considered both as a first fuel and as an essential infrastructure, is a major driving force to reduce the EU's import dependency and its overall external energy bill and to increase EU energy and geopolitical independence; reminds to this respect how every additional 1% increase in energy savings cuts gas imports by 2,6%;
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Calls on the Member States to fully implement and enforce existing EU legislation in the field of energy efficiency and renewable energy and calls on the European commission to further promote synergies between the ecodesign directive and the energy labelling regulation, especially regarding heating and cooling appliances;
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Remembers that the "energy efficiency first" principle is a priority for the EU energy policy and must be applied by reducing energy demand especially in existing and future buildings, both residential and non-residential, as the key strategy for achieving a successful transition towards a renewable, secure, resilient and smart heating and cooling system;
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Considers that domestic appliances (washing machines, dishwashers, etc.) should be designed in such a way that they can use the hot water supply at the place where they are installed; highlights, within this context, the importance of combining the most advanced technologies with a smart energy management, especially in a connected world where the appliance can easily adapt to weather conditions and electricity price signals and contribute to the stabilisation of the grid;
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Notes that smart buildings must become a core part of the energy system in terms of energy production, consumption, storage and management as they enable to reduce peak energy demand and therefore they play a major role in the transition towards a more resilient, stable but flexible energy network;
Amendment 139 #
3b. Underlines that in a context where regulatory stability is ensured, owners, tenants and managers are highly motivated to invest in strongly reducing the energy consumption of buildings; calls, in this respect, to bring the EU building stock to nearly-zero-energy buildings level by 2050, setting ambitious intermediate milestones in 2030 and 2040;
Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Calls on the European commission to propose a unified financial instrument for energy efficiency, in order to coordinate all existing EU funds towards the realisation of the vision of a zero- energy-building stock by 2050; reminds to this respect the importance of extending the requirement in article 5 of the energy efficiency directive to all public buildings;
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Stresses the importance of educating citizens, through awareness and information campaigns, to reduce thermal conditioning, to use less energy intensive appliances, to fully exploit the potential of renewables;
Amendment 168 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Considers that the use of appropriate architectural solutions and urban design principles in the planning of whole residential areas should be the basis for energy-efficient and low-emissionzero-energy construction in the various climate zones in Europe; underlines that a properly insulated building fabric has a high thermal storage capacity, resulting in significant heating and cooling savings;
Amendment 178 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Underlines that it is necessary to enable buildings owners, managers and tenants to accelerate the modernisation of their old and inefficient heating systems in Europe in order to deliver high energy efficiency gains with available technologies, with particular reference to the renewable heating systems;
Amendment 197 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Highlights the potential of 'prosumers' (active energy consumers, such as households, both owners and tenants, institutions and small and micro businesses that engage in renewable energy production either on their own or collectively through cooperatives, other social enterprises or aggregations) in establishing energy systems providing renewable heating and cooling along with energy efficiency and savings measures;
Amendment 208 #
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 heocal cogeneration or trigeneration (combined heat, power and cooling, CHPC) systems, with a particular focus on micro- and small-scale systems that cand electricity also provide the opportunity for power backup of residential-scale photovoltaic (PV) arrays;
Amendment 235 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Notes that outdated heating plants withenergy plants, often suffering from low energy efficiency, should be urgently replaced by small, environmentally- friendly CHP plants that use natural gas or other green fuelintegrated with renewable energy heat pumps;
Amendment 263 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Takes the view that the Member States should explore the possibility of using heat from geothermal waters directly or from other sources indirectly, for example the heat contained in deep-sea mines which could, with the help of huge heat pumps, heat whole towns, not just individual buildingsonly from low enthalpy geothermal resources using waters directly or from other sources indirectly;
Amendment 268 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Stresses the role of technologies capable of reducing both thermal energy demand and GHG emissions, like the low enthalpy geothermal energy, renewable- based heating/cooling districts, small- scale tri- or co-generating power plants burning natural gas and/or biomethane, or their combination;
Amendment 287 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Recalls that energy efficiency and demand reduction measures, especially when applied to residential and industry facilities, offer one of the highest and fastest financial returns among any possible investments that can be done in the energy sector;
Amendment 293 #
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 outdatedplants with poor energy efficiency, like waste incineration plants, solid-fuel furnaces with an energy efficiency level of lesslower than 80%, and other, with a view to decommissioning them as soon as possible;
Amendment 297 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Stresses the need to facilitate a transition towards renewable heating devices and to ensure adequate financial support and enhanced information and assistance for citizens, targeting in particular those at risk of energy-poverty;
Amendment 301 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls on the Commission to draw up a plan to promote the sustainable use of organic waste for heating and cooling as part of the 'Waste to energy' programmefully respect the principle of waste hierarchy when developing the announced initiative on a 'Waste to energy' programme and any other energy recovery actions;
Amendment 308 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Urges the Commission to put forward a legislative proposal with concrete targets for reducing energy consumption in residential and non- residential buildings;
Amendment 310 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the Member States to take administrative steps to ban the use ofurgently decommission outdated furnaces that generate ‘low hehight’ emissions – releasing into the atmosphere natural pyrolytic gases from incomplete combustion, NOx, soot and fly ash dispersed by convection – in the heating of urban agglomerations;
Amendment 319 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Calls for a review of existing legislation so as to ensure that externalities are fully integrated in the cost assessment and accounting of thermal conditioning processes, and that accordingly renewables could be fully exploited as primary thermal energy source;
Amendment 390 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Takes the view that there should be no restrictions on EU funding that is used for the thermal renovation of buildings and for the construction of new nearly-zero- energy ones; takes the view that the restrictions that have been in place thus far on ERDF funding for this purpose have had an adverse effect in hampering these processes, in particular as regards the large number of buildings and entire housing estates built using large-panel system building methods;
Amendment 395 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Calls on the Commission to strengthen the current provisions on heating and cooling in the post-2020 programming period for all applicable European funds, because they are an important tool for modernising the energy system; calls in particular to eliminate the barriers that still exist in the use of structural funds that hinder local authorities in allocating useful resources to renovate existing public buildings;
Amendment 414 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Takes the view that consumers must be made fully aware of the technological and economic benefits of new heating and cooling systembenefits of new advanced heating and cooling technologies and systems able to integrate renewable energies in terms of economic, environmental and geopolitical advantages, so as to enable them to make the best possible choices;
Amendment 425 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Calls on the European Commission and Member States to develop additional long-term financial mechanisms to stimulate both demand and investment in energy-efficient solutions both for renewing existing buildings and for erecting new ones;