18 Amendments of Soledad CABEZÓN RUIZ related to 2016/2058(INI)
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Underlines that 85% of the energy consumption within a building is required for space heating and domestic hot water and that it is therefore necessary to enable consumers to accelerate the modernisation of their old and inefficient heating systems in Europe in order to deliver at least 20% energy efficiency gains by 2020 with available technologies, including renewable heating systems;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the ways of using energy differ according to Europe’s climate zones, and whereas the importance of heating systems in colder zones and the importance of cooling systems in hot zones, being equal, should both be taken into account;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the heating and cooling sector should contribute to the decarbonisation of the economy;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2 b. Emphasises the active role that consumers can play in the path to a sustainable European heating and cooling system; underlines that an efficient outcome of the new regulation on "energy labelling", where scales of the new labels are forward-looking and allow to highlight the differences in terms of energy efficiency of the different products, can improve consumers´ possibility to address their choices in terms of energy savings and to reduce their bills; highlights that specific instruments - such as smart meters and domotic controls - can improve consumers´ consumption patterns.
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas a significant proportion of Europe's population live in areas, especially cities, where exceedances of air quality standards occur;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas energy has become a social asset, access to which must be guaranteed; whereas, however, not all citizens can gain access to energy, given that there are more than 25 million people in Europe who have serious difficulties in doing so;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G b (new)
Recital G b (new)
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph -1 (new)
Paragraph -1 (new)
-1. Considers that the strategy on heating and cooling must allow in the same way for both of these necessities, taking into account that Europe has different climate zones and that needs in terms of energy use differ accordingly;
Amendment 199 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on the Commission to increase support for the Covenant of Mayors and for the ‘Smart Cities and Communities’ initiative in order to make this a tool for promoting self-generation and energy efficiency and fighting energy poverty;
Amendment 215 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses that in dense urban agglomerations it is imperative that the use of individualefficient heating systems that depend on fossil fuels be restricted and replaced with large-scale local cogeneration systems that produce heat and electricityare progressively replaced with modern heating solutions and cogeneration systems contributing to improve air quality standards;
Amendment 225 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Amendment 282 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Takes the view that the waste heat obtained through cogeneration in the production of electric energy in conventional power plants and from residential buildings using recuperative methods as well as microcogeneration should play a much greater role in heating and cooling than before;
Amendment 312 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the Member States to take administrative steps to ban the use of outdated furnaces that generate ‘low height’ emissions – releasing into the atmosphere natural pyrolytic gases from incomplete combustion, NOx, soot, particulate matter and fly ash dispersed by convection – in the heating of agglomerations;
Amendment 422 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Underlines that 85% of the energy consumption within a building is required for space heating and domestic hot water and that it is therefore necessary to enable consumers to accelerate the modernisation of their old and inefficient heating systems in Europe in order to deliver at least 20% energy efficiency gains by 2020 with available technologies, including renewable heating systems;
Amendment 428 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 b (new)
Paragraph 26 b (new)
26b. Emphasises the active role that consumers can play in the path to a sustainable European heating and cooling system. An efficient outcome of the new regulation on "energy labelling", where scales of the new labels are forward-looking and allow to highlight the differences in terms of energy efficiency of the different products, can improve consumers´ possibility to address their choices in terms of energy savings and to reduce their bills; Highlights that specific instruments - such as smart meters and domotic controls - can improve consumers´ consumption patterns.
Amendment 443 #
27a. Calls on the Commission to set up a plan to combat energy poverty, one key element of which could be self-generation under the revised Renewable Energy Directive;
Amendment 444 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 b (new)
Paragraph 27 b (new)
27b. Believes that under the Energy Efficiency Directive Member States should establish state building renovation plans with a view to making buildings energy efficient, not least by offering incentives for the renovation of buildings owned by private individuals, and that such plans should also encompass specific measures for the most vulnerable groups to help combat energy poverty;
Amendment 445 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 c (new)
Paragraph 27 c (new)
27c. Calls on the Commission, when implementing the Energy Efficiency Directive, to develop training for practitioners in the fields of energy efficiency auditing and planning and to help private individuals, and the most vulnerable groups in particular, to carry out activities of this kind;