Activities of José Inácio FARIA related to 2015/2232(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the Energy Efficiency Directive (2012/27/EU)
Amendments (10)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Emphasises that energy efficiency is crucial to achieving our climate targets and to reducing our dependence on energy imports; Notes that the private and public building sectors account for a major stake in energy consumption in the EU; Calls on Member States to promote investment in these sectors as a means to reduce CO2 emissions, improve energy security, promote job creation and to diminish energy poverty;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Highlights the fact that more than half of the investment needed to decarbonise the EU's energy system to 2050 needs to be directed to energy efficiency; emphasizes that this approach will ensure that fossil-fuel based generation is sized to a scale appropriate to meet future demand, and asset stranding is avoided; calls for energy efficiency to be treated as an infrastructure investment priority allowing for its deployment as part of wider EU and national infrastructure planning and financing processes;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Calls on the Commission to promote the exchange of best practices across Member States in order to speed up the achievement of targets, the diffusion of innovative products and services, and to promote cross-country convergence in energy efficiency;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that the Energy Efficiency Directive triggered many positive developments in the Member States, but that poor implementation is hindering its full potential; highlights the competitiveness gains and emission savings that high energy consumption industry and companies can achieve by implementing cost-effective energy audit recommendations; calls on the Commission and Member States to ensure swift transposition and implementation of requirements under Article 8;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls for Member States renovation roadmaps in Article 4 to include intermediate 5 year targets towards a goal of nearly zero energy buildings by 2050, as will become necessary to meet the goals of the COP 21 Paris Agreement; calls for the extension of Article 5 to cover all public administration levels;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Regrets the very unambitious target of at least 27 % for improving energy efficiency in 2030 adopted by the European Council in 2014, whichin contrast to the 40% goal adopted by the European Parliament; notes that the 27% target is mainly justified by an extremely unrealistic high discount rate in a previous impact assessment; recalls that the discount rate of 17.5 % is higher than the discount rate for energy investment in Iraq (15 %)1[1]; __________________ 1 Friends of the Earth Europe (2015): Battle of the Discount Rates https://www.foeeurope.org/sites/default/files/energy _savings/2015/battle-discount-rates.pdf
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Acknowledges that insufficient price signals are a main reason to undermine demand response; calls on Member States to tackle this barrier and to promote smart metering and transparent billing as a way to foster more responsive consumer behaviour with reference to energy consumption and investment in energy efficiency;
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Highlights the importance of European financial instruments in the form of loans, guarantees and equity to leverage private funding for energy efficiency projects; stresses, however, the need for funding to be provided in the form of grants for projects in the social domain;
Amendment 83 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Insists that loopholes in the existing Directive, especially in Article 7, must be eliminated, while keeping; stresses that the excessive flexibility forgiven to the Member States to choose among the measures to be undertaken should not come at the expense of the annual energy savings targets; calls for a revision of Article 7 that enables the objective quantification and achievement of the 1,5% p.a. energy savings requirement;
Amendment 97 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Proposes that the title of Article 7 be changed to ‘energy saving'Saving energy through energy efficiency obligation and support schemes’' because there is no obligation to save energy for consumers and SMEs, but an obligation for Member States and/or utilities to give incentives and put in place measures that enable such savings to be achieved;