22 Amendments of Marita ULVSKOG 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 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas interconnection capacity between Member States remains in some part generally insufficient, and whereas certain regions remain isolated,
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 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
Recital L
L. whereas market-based toolslengthy permitting and lack of cost-allocation methodologies are considered the major barriers to the development of infrastructure projects, market-based tools and the user-pay principle must remain the basis for financing energy infrastructure, and whereas a limited amount of public finance may be required to fund certain projects of European interest which are not strictly commercially viable,
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L a (new)
Recital L a (new)
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. SUnderlines that public authorities have the overarching responsibility for planning infrastructure for the fulfilment of societal goals and needs; considers however that a market properly regulated to serve the public interest should keep the responsibility for planning and investments in energy infrastructure, stresses the crucial importance of timely and full implementation of existing legislation, including the regulatory work called for by the third internal energy market package which includes the principal tools for infrastructure development which are needed;
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Believes that a EU approach is needed in order to fully exploit the benefits of new infrastructure and stresses the needpossibility to develop a harmonised method for the selection of infrastructure projects, based on a European and regional perspectives and the optimisation of socio-economic and environmental effects;
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses that there should be a greater focus on internal transmission systems that significantly contribute to the integration of energy markets and to putting an end to energy islands and transmission bottlenecks;
Amendment 201 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Commission, with a view to ensuring better governance of future EU electricity and gas infrastructure planningrojects, to present a concrete proposal to improve transparency and public participation in determining EU priorities within a broader stakeholder participation process involving the power sector, independent experts, consumer organisations and NGOs;
Amendment 215 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Considers that the TYNDP should form the key basis of a rolling programme for developing European electricity transmission infrastructure within a long- term European planning perspective and with monitoring by the Agency for Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) and the Commission;
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 246 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Endorses the importance of efficient gas infrastructures in enhancing diversification and security of supply and reducing energy dependence while respecting the need to drastically reduce emissions from the energy sector by 2050; highlights the need for additional flexibility requirements in gas infrastructures, in particular with a view to ensuring reverse flows, and stresses that gas infrastructure should be developed, with full account being taken of the contribution of LNG/ CNG terminals;
Amendment 269 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Considers that the development of infrastructure for sustainable unconventional gas sources has not yet been given the necessary attention by the Commission as regards legal issues, life cycle assessment and environmental impacts; asks the Commission to conduct a thorough evaluation on this issue;
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 280 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Stresses the importance at national level of integrated energy infrastructure planning for agricultural and small-scale rural energy sources, so as to favour decentralised energy production and rural development;
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 287 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Emphasises the importance at national level 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;
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 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 476 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Agrees on the need to ensure timely implementation of PEIs and welcomes the Commission's proposal to streamline, enhance the coordination of and improve permit-granting procedures, provided that the subsidiarity principle is respected and national competence over permitting procedures are respected;
Amendment 480 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Welcomes the establishment of a national contact authoritypoint for each European interest project (‘one-stop shop’)with cross-border impact as a single administrative interface between developers and the different authoriticontact points in other Member States involved in the authorisation procedure; takes the view that, with regard to cross- border projects, further coordination between national ‘one-stop shops’ and an increased role for the Commission in such coordination should be ensured;
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;