Activities of José BLANCO LÓPEZ related to 2016/2058(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
EU strategy on heating and cooling (A8-0232/2016 - Adam Gierek) ES
Amendments (11)
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 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 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 242 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Notes that outdated heating plants with low energy efficiency should be replaced by small, environmentally- friendly CHP plants that use natural gas or other green fuels and that the modernization of old-fashioned gas appliances by high efficiency ones would bring economic and environmental benefits due to large energy efficiency gains, avoiding increasing the capacity of the power grid to face electricity demand for heating;
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 436 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Takes the view that the key to combating energy poverty is to cut heating prices by ensuring that there isenergy poverty may be mitigated by reducing energy prices and heating losses ensuring a significant increase in energy efficiency at the three main stages of energy use: during conversion from primary energy to useful energy, during further transport of that energy, and during use by the end user;