28 Amendments of Eija-Riitta KORHOLA related to 2011/0172(COD)
Amendment 220 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 19
Recital 19
(19) To tap the energy savings potential in certain market segments where energy audits are generally not offered commercially (such as households or small and medium-sized enterprises), Member States should ensure that energy audits are available. Energy audits should be mandatory and regular for large enterpriseMember States shall encourage large enterprises to carry out energy audits on a regularly basis, as energy savings can be significant.
Amendment 224 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 20
Recital 20
(20) These audits should be carried out in an independent and cost-effective manner. The requirement for independence allows the audits to be carried out by in-house experts, provided that these are qualified or accredited, that they are not directly engaged in the activity audited, and that the Member State has put in place a scheme to assure and check their quality and to impose sanctions if neededfor which Member States should create the right frameworks.
Amendment 288 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 34
Recital 34
Amendment 437 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1
Article 3 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall set an indicative national energy efficiency target expressed as an absolute level of primaryfinal energy consumption in 2020. When setting these targetsIn doing so, they shall take into account the Union’s target of 20 % on energy savings, the measures provided for in this Directive, the measures adopted to reach the national energy saving targets adopted pursuant to Article 4(1) of Directive 2006/32/ECefficiency, the measures contained in this Directive, and other measures to promote energy efficiency within Member States and at Union level.
Amendment 585 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. As an alternative to paragraph 1 and 2, Member States may opt to take other measures to improve the energy efficiency performance of public buildings. The annual amount of energy efficiency improvements achieved through this approach shall be equivalent to the amount of energy savings required in paragraph 1. Member States opting for this option shall notify to the Commission, by 1 January 2014 at the latest, the alternative measures that they plan to adopt and showing how they would achieve the required amount of energy efficiency improvements.
Amendment 658 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 1
Article 6 – paragraph 1
1. Each Member State shall set up an energy efficiency obligation scheme. This scheme shall ensure that either all energy distributors or all retail energy sales companies operating on the Member State's territory achieve annual energy savings equal to 1.5% of their energy sales, by volume, in the previous year iallocate a share of its national efficiency target defined according to article 3, to energy distributed on thate Member State excluding energy used in transport. This amount of energy savings shall be achieved by the obligated parties among final customers’s territory.
Amendment 697 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 6 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Amendment 782 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 8
Article 6 – paragraph 8
8. Member States may exempt small energy distributors and small retail energy sales companies, namely those that distribute or sell less than the equivalent of 75 GWh of energy per year, employ fewer than 10 persons, or have less than 500 final customers, or have an annual turnover or annual balance sheet total that does not exceed EUR 2 000 000, from the application of this Article. Energy produced for self use and recovered energy products shall not count towards these thresholds.
Amendment 864 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 2
Article 7 – paragraph 2
2. Member States shall ensure thatcourage enterprises not included in the second subparagraph of paragraph 1 are subject toto carry out an energy audit carried outregularly in an independent and cost-effective manner by qualified or accredited experts at the latest by 30 June 2014 andincluding in-house experts. For this purpose Member States may include evnergy three years from the date of the previous energy auditaudits as part of long-term voluntary energy efficiency agreements supervised by Member State concerned.
Amendment 884 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 3
Article 7 – paragraph 3
Amendment 900 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 4 a (new)
Article 7 – paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Energy audits and energy management systems implemented under this article do not exclude the same or similar measures to be used as a justification for existing or future incentive and support schemes such as tax rebates. If necessary, European state aid guidelines in this field and the EU energy taxation directive are to be adapted accordingly.
Amendment 917 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Member States shall ensure that where technically feasible and cost-effective for the investor, including consideration of maintenance, management and replacement costs, final customers for electricity, natural gas, district heating or cooling and district- supplied domestic hot water are provided with individual meters that accurately measure and allow to make available their actual energy consumption and provide information on actual time of use, in accordance with Annex VI.
Amendment 1097 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part
Article 10 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part
Member States shall ensure that allwhen planning new thermal electricity generation installations with a total thermal input exceeding 20 MW:, studies are made on the technical and economical feasibility to introduce a power plant with equipment allowing for the recovery of waste heat by means of a high-efficiency cogeneration unit.
Amendment 1115 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point a
Article 10 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point a
Amendment 1129 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point b
Article 10 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point b
Amendment 1143 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2
Article 10 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2
Amendment 1177 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1 – point c
Article 10 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1 – point c
(c) a cost-benefit analysis shows that the costs outweigh the benefits in comparison with the full life-cycle costs, including infrastructure investment, of providing the same amount of electricity and heat with separate heating or cooling.
Amendment 1207 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 1
Article 10 – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 1
Member States shall ensure that, whenever an existing electricity generation installation with a total rated thermal input exceeding 20 MW is substantially refurbished or when, in accordance with Article 21 of Directive 2010/75/EC, its permit is updated, conversion to allow its operation as a high-efficiency cogeneration installation is set as a condition in the new or updated permit or licence, provided that the installation is sited in a location where the waste heat can be used by heat demand points in accordance with point 1 of Annex VIIIstudies are made on the technical and economical feasibility to introduce a power plant with allowing recovery of waste heat by means of a high-efficiency cogeneration unit.
Amendment 1240 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 7 – subparagraph 1 – point b
Article 10 – paragraph 7 – subparagraph 1 – point b
(b) a cost-benefit analysis shows that the costs outweigh the benefits in comparison with the full life-cycle costs, including infrastructure investment, of providing the same amount of electricity and heat with separate heating or cooling.
Amendment 1263 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 8 – subparagraph 1
Article 10 – paragraph 8 – subparagraph 1
Member States shall adopt authorisation or equivalent permitting criteria to ensure that industrial installations with a total thermal input exceeding 20 MW generating waste heat that are built or substantially refurbished after [the entry into force of this Directive] capture and make use of their waste heat, if it is economically and technically cost-effective and reasonable.
Amendment 1272 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 8 – subparagraph 2
Article 10 – paragraph 8 – subparagraph 2
Member States shall establish mechanisms to ensure the connection of these installations to district heating and cooling networks. They may require these installations to bear the connection charges and the cost of developing the district heating and cooling networks necessary to transport their waste heat to consumers, if it is economically and technically cost-effective and reasonable.
Amendment 1287 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 8 – subparagraph 3 – point b
Article 10 – paragraph 8 – subparagraph 3 – point b
b) a cost-benefit analysis shows that the costs outweigh the benefits in comparison with the full life-cycle costs, including infrastructure investment, of providing the same amount of heat with separate heating or cooling.
Amendment 1298 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 9
Article 10 – paragraph 9
Amendment 1373 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 12 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 1 – point b
Article 12 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 1 – point b
b) provide priority or guaranteed access to the grid of electricity from high efficiency cogeneration;
Amendment 1381 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 12 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 1 – point c
Article 12 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 1 – point c
Amendment 1520 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 19 – paragraph 5
Article 19 – paragraph 5
Amendment 1537 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 19 – paragraph 7
Article 19 – paragraph 7
7. By 30 JuneDecember 20146 the Commission shall submit the assessment referred to in Article 3(2) to the European Parliament and to the Council, followed, if appropriate, by a legislative proposal laying down mandatory national targetadditional measures.
Amendment 1769 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex VIII
Annex VIII
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