19 Amendments of Fiona HALL related to 2011/2034(INI)
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas our major energy challenges are confronting climate change, strengthening energy autonomy while reducing fossil fuel imports and overall energy use, achieving a competitive internal energy market and ensuring universal access to sustainable, affordable and secure energy,
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas energy efficiency offers a powerful and cost-effective tool for achieving a sustainable energy future and, by reducing energy demand, can partially reduce the need for investment in energy infrastructure,
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that the reference scenario used for assessing the energy infrastructure for 2020 needs to be consistent with the overall energy policy objectives and the EU's 2050 roadmap, and with other EU policies (such as transport, buildings and the Emission Trading Scheme (ETS)), including energy efficiency policies (notably the implementation of the forthcomingrecently published energy efficiency action plan (EEP) and attainment of the 20% target) as well as the potential impact of technological advances and the deployment of ‘smart cities’ initiatives;
Amendment 216 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Stresses that ACER as well as National Regulatory Authorities (NRAs) should, before approving infrastructure investments, establish concrete guidelines to verify on a project-by-project basis whether infrastructure requirements could be met more cost-effectively through demand-side energy efficiency measures;
Amendment 218 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Stresses that fostering the building of infrastructure for efficient and intelligent integration of renewable energy as well as integration of new electricity uses, notably electric or plug-in hybrid vehicles, is critical for the successful achievement of overall energy objectives and welcomes the priority given to the North Sea grid as an essential element of a future European super-grid; notes the importance of building an integrated hub-based North Sea offshore grid in order to optimise connectivity, system resilience, operational flexibility and to reduce costs; asks the Commission to consult all relevant stakeholders with a view to speeding up the identification of electricity highways and to present an outline to the European Parliament by 2014;
Amendment 278 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Stresses the importance of integrated energy infrastructure planning for agricultural and small-scale rural energy sources, so as to favour decentralised energy production and rural development, and emphasises the importance of priority access to the grid for renewables as outlined in EU Directive 2009/28/EC;
Amendment 281 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Emphasises the importance of infrastructure at distribution level and the role that prosumers and distribution system operators (DSOs) play during the integration of decentralised energy products into the system; and demand-side efficiency measures into the system; underlines that not giving a higher priority to demand- side management would considerably undermine the integration of decentralised energy sources and would undermine the achievement of overall energy policy objectives;
Amendment 299 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Urges the Commission to present by 2012 concrete initiatives to promote the development of energy storage capacities (including multi-use gas/hydrogen facilities, hydropower, high-temperature solar, electric vehicles and other technologies);
Amendment 307 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Urges the Commission to critically assess and review, wherever necessary, the figures for investment needs given in the communication on energy infrastructure priorities, particularly in relation to demand reduction through energy efficiency measures, and asks it to report to the Council and to the Parliament on the investments likely to be needed;
Amendment 317 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Believes that energy infrastructures should become more end-user-oriented, with a stronger focus on the interaction between distribution system capacities and consumption; to this end, emphasises the need for real-time, two-directional power and information flows; points to the benefits of a new electricity system incorporating modern technologies and services such as smart meters, smart grids and interoperable ICT-operated load- and demand-side energy management services;
Amendment 325 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Stresses that the roll-out of smart grids should be one of the priorities of the energy infrastructures as it will help to reduce energy dependence by increasing energy efficiency, reducing extreme peak prices and developing electric system flexibility and capacity;
Amendment 326 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 b (new)
Paragraph 19 b (new)
19b. Emphasises the need for demand- side management to ensure the deployment of smart grid technologies and demand-response systems; further underlines that smart grid benefits will be fully achieved only if all stakeholders are becoming smart grid ready; therefore stresses the need to promote the development of users-friendly technologies;
Amendment 336 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Believes that smart grids and energy management solutions offer a unique opportunity to boost the competitiveness of European industry, with particular reference to SMEs, and boost innovation and employment; calls on the Commission to present a new proposal which includes a binding requirement to deploy smart meters for all non-residential customers by 2014;
Amendment 348 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. UStresses that the standardisation and interoperability of smart grids should be a priority; urges the Members States, in liaison with European standardisation bodies and industry; to speed up work on technical standards for electric vehicles and smart grids and meters, with a view to its completion by 2012;
Amendment 353 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Acknowledges that the standardization work in smart metering is progressing with the standardization Mandate M/441 issued by the European Commission to the European Standardization Organisations (CEN, CENELEC and ETSI), and stresses that technical standards for smart meters should take into account the additional functionalities identified in the Final Report of the CEN/CENELEC/ETSI Smart Meters Coordination Group (SM- CG), namely: - remote reading or metrological registers, - two-way communication, - support for advanced tariffication/pre- payment, - remote enablement and disablement of supply, power limitation, - communication with and where appropriate direct control of individual devices within homes and buildings, - provision of information via web portal/gateway to an in-home display;
Amendment 359 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Points out that Member States are already obliged to roll out smart meters for at least 80% of their final consumers by 2020; underlines that smart meters will enable consumers to effectively monitor and control their energy consumption; stresses that Member States should support a sufficient number of pilot projects for residential consumers in order to boost the innovation process, as provided for in the third energy market package; calls for clear rules concerning privacy and data protection to be established in accordance with existing EU law;
Amendment 414 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 – indent 3
Paragraph 24 – indent 3
– they must be in line with climate, energy efficiency and environmental objectives,
Amendment 494 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. WStresses the importance of projects being finalised as early as possible; where difficulties are encountered, welcomes the introduction of time limits within which the relevant executive authorities must reach a final decision; calls on the Commission to further asses this initiative, taking account of the diverse range of project specificities and the territorial characteristics of projects, and to evaluate the suitability of using arbitration procedures as a final decision-making tool;
Amendment 508 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
Paragraph 34
34. Notes that grid investments are cyclical and should be viewed in a historical perspective; points out that a large amount of the infrastructure built over the past decades to interconnect centralised power plants will become obsolete in the coming years; points out that society will expect the cost of deploying new infrastructure to be optimised, emphasises therefore the need to accurately ascertain infrastructure requirements and avoid lock-in to surplus capacity by taking the cost-effective energy efficiency potential fully into account;