4 Amendments of Oldřich VLASÁK related to 2012/2259(INI)
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. whereas the most of the current arrangements for energy generation from renewable sources take no account of geographical plant location criteria and fail to exploit cost advantages, thereby making the European energy turnaround unnecessarily costly;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Notes that, in many Member States, RES already account for more than 20% of the energy market, while national rules on feed-in tariffs and preferential treatment are leading to distortions of competition;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Calls for national exemptions from the EU prohibition on state aid for renewable energies to be abolished in view of the distortions of the market which have arisen in countries where RES account for over 20% of the energy market; also takes a critical view of preferential feed-in arrangements for RES when their market share exceeds a certain level, which can have the effect of destabilising the grid and distorting competition;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls for a review of the capacity payments envisaged or in place in some countries for conventional power stations to maintain baseload capacity, which may conflict with European competition rules; calls on Member States and energy producers, instead, to organise baseload groupings in cooperation with RES inside the internal market on the basis of free- market principles; asks the Commission to draw up a legal framework for the setting up of local groupings to secure baseload power;