4 Amendments of Flavio ZANONATO related to 2015/2232(INI)
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Emphasises the crucial role of consumers, citizens and DSO's in the ever more decentralised energy landscape and the importance of their involvement for reaching the energy efficiency targets; stresses therefore that more action needs to be taken to enhance their role through, amongst others, facilitating demand response, small scale storage, building refurbishments and district heating and cooling schemes, both on an individual as well as on a cooperative base;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. In the light of the solutions provided by ESCOs to industries and utilities, allowing those to attain energy savings and sustainable energy projects without having to pay high up-front costs, recommends applying analogous on-bill repayment schemes to retail consumers; in this way, financial institutions or DSO's bear the upfront costs, which are repaid to them periodically by the consumer when the benefits of the investments are reached through lower energy bills, allowing consumers to save energy and money at the same time and helping to reach our climate and energy goals; by linking the on-bill repayment system to the EAN-code instead of the consumer, split incentives between tenants and owners and transaction costs are circumvented;
Amendment 163 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Stresses that uncoordinated national legislation (exit from coal, payment schemes for renewable energy, capacity markets)may restricts the scope for European solutions that provide the best possible results in terms of cost and supply and cancels out the price advantages obtained throughreate environmental and price advantages through increased cooperation and energy savings; calls for increased possibilities for bindingregional cooperation and coordination by the Commission;
Amendment 240 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Takes the view that more flexibility is needed in order to reach the EU’s climate protection and efficiency targets; calls for ‘target flexibility’ for Member States; takes the view that rebates should be available for targets relating to energy saving and increasing the share of renewable energy sources (Article 3 of the Energy Efficiency Directive) where for example the CO2 targets have been exceededEmphasises the repeated request of the European Parliament for a binding energy efficiency target of 40% which is needed in order to reach the EU's climate and energy goals and COP 21 commitment;