7 Amendments of Seán KELLY related to 2016/0379(COD)
Amendment 319 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 23 – paragraph 1
Article 23 – paragraph 1
1. The Board of Regulators and sub- committees pursuant to Article 7 shall act by a simpletwo-thirds majority of the members present, with one vote for each member, except for the opinion pursuant to paragraph 5(b) which shall be taken on the basis of a two-thirds majority of its members present.
Amendment 448 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 4 a (new)
Article 7 – paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Where Member States can demonstrate that the introduction of an imbalance settlement period of 15 minutes would adversely impact their consumers, the TSOs of a synchronous area may jointly request an exemption from the requirement laid down in paragraph 4.
Amendment 449 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 4 b (new)
Article 7 – paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Where the relevant regulatory authorities of a synchronous area grant an exemption from the requirement laid down in paragraph 4 upon a joint request of the TSOs in the concerned area or at their own initiative, they shall perform, in cooperation with the Agency and at least every three years, a cost-benefit analysis concerning the harmonisation of the imbalance settlement period within and between synchronous areas.
Amendment 450 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 4 c (new)
Article 7 – paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. The exemption must not be to the detriment of competition or the effective functioning of the internal market in electricity.
Amendment 554 #
4 a. Member States shall phase out priority dispatch for installations under paragraph 4 only if all of the following apply: - For energy intensive industry cogenerating electricity and heat from high efficiency CHP, where alternative solutions to produce useful process heat could be implemented in an economically and technically feasible manner, that guarantees continued operation of the facility. - There is a fully operational liquid wholesale electricity market operating in the Member State with no identified resource adequacy concerns. - All the barriers identified in Article 3 have been eliminated, and Article 3 is fully implemented. Producers may opt-out of priority dispatch at any time if such actions include fair financial compensation or another form of agreement between the producer and the Member State.
Amendment 833 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 4 a (new)
Article 17 – paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. In Member States or third countries which use interconnector revenues as income to be taken into account when calculating network tariffs as part of a policy explicitly designed to attract new investment into interconnection capacity, any revenues resulting from the allocation of capacity on interconnectors that are owned and operated by a separate legal entity from the main transmission system may be used, subject to approval by the regulatory authorities of the Member States concerned, up to a maximum amount to be determined by those regulatory authorities, as income to be taken into account by the regulatory authorities when approving the methodology for calculating network tariffs and/or fixing network tariffs.
Amendment 1116 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 24 a (new)
Article 24 a (new)
Article 24 a Within 12 months after the entry into force of this Regulation an Electricity Market Design Advisory Board shall be established. The Advisory Board shall be consisting of high-level experts of EU Member States and a relevant and balanced group of experts from the energy sector, including utilities, investors, technology providers, network operators, climate protection groups, consumer representatives and representatives of local energy communities. The Advisory Board will provide the Commission with expertise and insight, and thus advice and assist the Commission in the assessment of the challenges related to the current energy market design and preparation of future policy initiatives in this respect. It will do so by formulating opinions, recommendations or reports, where appropriate. Within 24 months after the establishment of the Advisory Board, the European Commission should draw its conclusions from the discussion by means of a Communication laying out the strategic priorities for a European electricity market capable of driving the investments needed for a sustainable, secure and affordable energy transition.