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38 Amendments of Kathleen VAN BREMPT related to 2015/2322(INI)

Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 8 a (new)
- having regard to the Paris Agreement made in December 2015 at the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP 21) to the UNFCCC;
2016/04/05
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas an energy market transformation with renewables at its core, serving the decarbonisation objective, should also provide a EU-wide strategy carefully managing the divestment from conventional generation sources, both fossil and nuclear, from today to 2030; this strategy would thus hedge the risks of the impending carbon bubble, which could bring a rapid worldwide drop of the value of coal, oil and gas assets;
2016/04/05
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
C. whereas the integration of the electricity markets must also respect the right of the Member States to determine the nationalat according to article 194 TFEU, European energy policy shall ensure the functioning of the energy market, the security of energy supply, promote energy efficiency savings as well as the development of renewable energy mix and the overall structure of interconnection of energy networks; whereas the definition of their energy supplymix of Member States remains a national competence;
2016/04/05
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
E. whereas national capacity markets make it harder to integrate electricity markets and run contrary to the objectives of the common energy policyin order to cover any forecast gap in security of supply, capacity mechanisms should only be used as a last resort, once all other options have been considered, including increased interconnection with neighbouring countries, demand-side response measures and other forms of regional market integration;
2016/04/05
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
H. whereas the target of a medium-term increase in interconnection between the Member States to 15% couldwill improve security of supply and end energy islands;
2016/04/05
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Ha. whereas the growing share of variable renewable energy sources in the electricity mix requires stable backup from flexible and sustainable energy sources and flexible technologies such as storage and demand-response;
2016/04/05
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the Commission communication on the transformation of the energy market and endorses the view that, whilst pursuing the 2030 climate and energy objectives, the transformed electricity market should enhance regional cooperation on security of energy supply and should focus on more market and less regulationensuring a well- regulated market-based system which is capable of delivering on all of the EU's established energy and climate goals;
2016/04/05
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Believes that the ongoing energy transition is resulting in a move away from a centralised, inflexible, fossil-fuel based system towards one which is more decentralised, flexible, and renewables- based; thus a new system is needed to reflect these changing realities and adapt in the most secure, safe, efficient, affordable and sustainable manner;
2016/04/05
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Calls for the existing regulatory framework of the European markets to be adjusted to allow for a growing share of renewable energy sources; stresses that a new market design for electricity for an increasingly decentralised energy system must promote safe, sustainable and efficient electricity supply;
2016/04/05
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Calls for the existing regulatory framework of the European markets to be adjusted to allow for a growing share of renewable energy sources; stresses that a new market design for electricity must promote sustainable and efficient electricity supplypromote and reward flexibility, storage solutions, demand-side response technologies and further market integration which will help promote and integrate a growing share of renewable energy sources into the market; stresses that security of supply and decarbonisation will require a combination of liquid short-term (day- ahead and intraday) markets and long term price signals; ;
2016/04/05
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 183 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Believes that a strengthened European internal market in electricity is possible on the basis of stronger market price incentives through prices that reflect actual scarcity as well as by removing flexibility barriers; is aware, however, of the risks of unpredictable price surges and calls for meaningful pilot projects to be carried out before introducing prices that reflect the actual scarcity of supplies;
2016/04/05
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 225 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Stresses the right of Member States to determine the conditions for the use of their energy resources, in their national energy mix and the overall structure of their energy supplysubject to the Treaty provisions which stipulate that European energy policy shall ensure the functioning of the energy market, ensure security of energy supply, promote energy efficiency and savings and the development of renewable energy and promote the interconnection of energy networks;
2016/04/05
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 231 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Supports the closer linkage of differing priorities in the national energy mix, such as wind energy with nuclear or with water reservoirs;deleted
2016/04/05
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 234 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Supports the closer linkage of differing priorities in the national energy mix, such as wind energy with nuclear or with water reservoirs;deleted
2016/04/05
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 275 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Notes that rapid network expansion and the removal of network bottlenecks are also essential if uniform price zones are to be retained, and that the splitting of bidding zones could be a sensible market economy approach to reflect actual electricity shortages in certain regions; takes the view that in closely integrated electricity networks the allocation of price zones should be decided together with all neighbours concerned in order to prevent both the inefficient use of networks and the reduction of cross-border capacities, which is incompatible with the internal market;
2016/04/05
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 312 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Calls for national capacity mechanisms only to be authorised whereInsists that capacity markets should only be used when the following criteria are met: a. Their need is confirmed by rigorous security of supply and system adequacy assessments, which include interconnections, storage, demand-side response and cross-border generation resources, and based on a homogenous and transparent methodology which identifies a clear risk to uninterrupted supply; the system a detailed analysis of the production and supply situation at regional level has been carried out in advance and a bottleneck has been identified which cannot be eliminated by less stringent measures such as a strategic reserve; quacy assessment should include general economic viability checks of the technologies operating in the system to determine if it can be expected that the existing resources would remain in operation regardless/under a business as usual scenario; b. This assessment examines and details why a capacity market is needed rather than other options such as increased interconnection and market integration with neighbouring countries, demand-side response measures and any other available measures; c. Their design is such that it is non- discriminatory to participation from electricity storage technologies, aggregated demand-side response, stable sources of renewable energy and participation from undertakings in other Member States; d. Their design includes rules to ensure that capacities are allocated sufficiently in advance in order to provide adequate investment signals for new and more efficient plants to be built rather than prolonging the lives of older, more polluting plants; e. Air quality rules are incorporated in order to eliminate the most polluting technologies;
2016/03/29
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 317 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Calls for cross-national capacity mechanisms only to be authorised where a detailed analysis of the production and supply situation at regional level has been carried out in advance and a bottleneck has been identified which cannot be eliminated by less stringent measures such as a strategic reserve;
2016/03/29
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 322 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Insists that badly-designed and ill thought-out capacity markets may amount to little more than state subsidies to traditional forms of generation; therefore calls on the Commission to closely monitor their compliance with state aid guidelines and take into account their incompatibility with the G20 and European Council commitments to phase out harmful subsidies to fossil fuels;
2016/03/29
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 331 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
14. Insists that national capacity markets should be open to cross-border participation and to new and existing plants, be market-based and include generation, demand response and storage; furthermore, national capacity markets should deliver long term price signals and should only create the capacity strictly necessary for security of supply;
2016/03/29
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 338 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
14. Insists that only cross-national capacity marketechanisms should be open to cross-border participation and should only create the capacity strictly necessary for security of supplyenvisaged in the European internal market and create the capacity strictly necessary for the regional or cross-border security of supply that has been assessed a priori;
2016/03/29
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 346 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Calls for the further development of the energy-only market, based on the consistent application of existing legislation, the comprehensive expansion of transmission infrastructure where necessary, better interconnection, demand response schemes, storage and greater regional cooperation;
2016/03/29
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 357 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. Insists that, before a capacity market is authorisedMember State proceeds with a capacity mechanism, it must be shown that all efforts have been made to reinforce the internal market and dismantle obstacles to flexibility;
2016/03/29
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 380 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Points out that time-varying electricity prices can trigger demand side flexibility, which can help balance demand and supply and smooth out variable renewable production patterns, stresses the importance in that regard of the electricity prices to reflect actual electricity costs;
2016/03/29
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 399 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
18. Notes that the expectation of future price surges can create additional incentives for producers and investors to invest in production capacity, particularly in high- efficiency modern gas-fired power stations, urges politicians not to intervene in the market even in the event of large price surges and calls, in the medium term, for the complete abolition of regulated final consumer price and calls in the medium term, for the phasing-out of generally applied regulated final consumer prices, while taking into account energy poverty risks;
2016/03/29
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 422 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
19. Supports the EU’s goal of increasing the share of renewables to 30%; notes, however, that the permanent subsidising of renewables is outdated and that renewables too must react to market signals in this new energy system, since otherw and believes that in order to ensure the necessary investor and legal certainty national targets are needed; highlights that support schemes, where well- designed, have been a useful tool in rapidly bringing down the costs of renewables such as solar PV and onshore wind and as these technologies are becoming cost competitive and mature there will no longer be a need for such schemes; stresses that where support schemes are still needed for less mature forms of renewable energy, they should be designed in an efficient way that minimises market signals for all electricity producdistortion, while ensuring effective results in terms will be heightened disproportionatelyof renewable generation capacity development;
2016/03/29
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 437 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
20. Notes that the Member States must meet specific quantitative objectivetargets for the share of renewables in energy consumption, irrespective of the market situation, and therefore stresses the importance of promoting renewables in a way that focuses on competition and cost efficiency; therefore regards the promotion of investment as more compatible with the market than feed-in priorities and fixed priceinvestments in different ways;
2016/03/29
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 439 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
20. Notes that under the 2020 framework the Member States must meet specific quantitative objectives for the share of renewables in energy consumption, irrespective of the market situation, and therefore stresses the importance of promoting renewables in a way that focuses on competition and cost efficiency; therefore regards the promotion of investment as more compatible with the market than feed-in priorities and fixed prices; , whilst recognising that the many different renewable technologies are at different stages of maturity and have different characteristics so cannot be treated with a one-size-fits-all approach; regards the promotion of investment as more compatible with the market than feed-in priorities and fixed prices; in order to ensure a favourable environment for investments, all existing RES plans should retain all direct and indirect benefits granted at the time of the investment decision, including feed-in priorities;
2016/03/29
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 451 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
21. Insists that, with the increasing technical maturity and widespread use of renewable energy sources, subsidy rules must be geared to market conditions, such as feed-in premiums, in order to keep costs for energy consumers within reasonable bounds;
2016/03/29
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 462 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
22. Warns against mixing energy supply objectives with climate policy objectives; calls for the ETS to be consistently reinforced and the market to be redesigned with a view to greater flexibility, so that in future CO2 and fuel prices can give more support to the expansion of renewables;
2016/03/29
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 472 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
23. Calls for operators of large renewable power plants to be held strictly responsible for balancing within their areas and stresses that, in the event of departure from the schedule announced by the operator, an appropriate compensatory energy price shouldcan be charged;
2016/03/29
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 492 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
25. Is convinced that, alongside renewables, all safe and sustainable energy sources which serve the objective of gradual decarbonisation in line with the recent COP21global agreement will continue to have a role to play in electricity generation;
2016/03/29
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 500 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Stresses that existing non-sustainable overcapacity hampers reaching our energy and climate goals; therefore asks the Commission and the Member States to work together to address this overcapacity and improve investment conditions for replacing non-sustainable capacity by sustainable generation, storage solutions, grid interconnections and demand response schemes;
2016/03/29
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 502 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
26. Takes the view that, for a medium- term transitional period, national responsibility for the energy mix cannot be questioned and therefore that both nuclear power, which is largely CO2- neutral, and the use of national energy reserves together with high-efficiency gas- fired power stations and coal-fired electricity generation using the latest technology, can make vital contributions to the integration of renewables;deleted
2016/03/29
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 524 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
27. Stresses that greater consideration must be given to distribution system operators’ local and regional responsibility for the energy union, given that the energy landscape becomes more and more decentralised, 90% of renewables are connected to the distribution grid and DSO’s are locally embedded; rejects, however, the unbundling of distribution systems beyond the scope of existing legislation, since the current rules have proved their usefulness and the consumer has a free choice of suppliers;
2016/03/29
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 531 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
28. Stresses that renewables should in most cases be fed in at distribution systems level, close to consumption, and therefore calls for distribution system operators to haveplay a greater role overall and to be more closely involved in the European regulatory bodieas facilitators for reaching our energy union goals and to strengthen the cooperation amongst different DSOs;
2016/03/29
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 549 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
29. Calls for measures to facilitatincentivise necessary investments in distribution systems which are not yet prepared for taking in growing quantities of renewables orand for digitalisation; in this connection, data collection and distributionDSOs must be accorded a greater role in data collecting and sharing and data protection must be secured;
2016/03/29
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 563 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
30. Regards distribution system operators as neutral market pioneefacilitators receiving data from various sources, which they can then make available in a non-discriminatory manner to authorised third parties with the consent of the consumer;
2016/03/29
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 571 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
31. Welcomes the work of ACER and calls for the agency to be provided with sufficient financial and human resources to carry out its current and future tasks and duties;
2016/03/29
Committee: ITRE