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REPORT on a European strategy for energy system integration
Amendments (39)
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission have endorsed the goal of aare committed to the Paris Agreement and have endorsed the European Green Deal and the goal of achieving a fair transition leading to climate- neutral economity by 2050;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas Parliament has endorsed the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 60% by 2030, which requires more ambitious targets for renewables;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas energy system integration means the coordinated planning and operation of all energy carriers and infrastructure connected to all final consume largely renewable based energy system as a whole and infrastructure across multiple energy carriers, infrastructures, and consumption sectors;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas energy system integration can keep costs formake efficient use of European authorities and Europe’ resources and citizens within realistic and acceptable limitsontribute to achieving social and environmental objectives such as healthy indoor climate, tackling energy poverty and reaching climate neutrality and green job creation;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
D a. whereas the climate emergency and the current health crisis forces the Union to reconsider the role of public spending in achieving social, environmental and economic goals supporting a green recovery;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Supports the direction set out by the Commission in its Communication on a strategy for energy system integration in particularly on energy efficiency first principle, and a largely renewable based energy system; calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that it is implemented rapidly in a spirit of solidarity; encourages the private sector to contribute tobelieves that the public sector plays a crucial role in its success;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Believes that such a strategy can help the Union achieve its climate goals while maintaining energy accessibility, affordability and security of supply through the development of an efficient, integrated, resilient, smart and decarbonised system;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Reiterates its support for the energy efficiency first principle, a more circular energy system and recalls that the most sustainable energy is energy which is not consumed;
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Notes the limitations of sustainably produced biofuels and renewable hydrogen and therefore emphasises the need to apply first other alternatives such as the energy efficiency first principle and direct electrification; however, is aware of the role that sustainably produced biofuels and renewable hydrogen can play in decarbonising the difficult-to-decarbonise sectors such as steel and cement and thus believes that certain common rules and provisions need to be set;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3 c. Deplores the danger of accidents occurring during the operation of nuclear power plants and the economic and environmental cost of nuclear waste management; calls for the phase out of nuclear energy;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 d (new)
Paragraph 3 d (new)
3 d. Deplores the role of investor protection as an obstacle to achieving the obligations under the Paris Agreement and achieving climate neutrality; calls on the Commission to terminate the protection of fossil fuel investments in the context of the modernisation of the Energy Charter Treaty in order to facilitate a fast transition towards a sustainable, renewable based energy system;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission to extend the principle of energy efficiency to the entire value chain and to all end-uses; underlines the potential of circularity and reuse of waste, energy and waste heat from industrial processes, buildings and data centres; stresses that waste to heat is an inefficient use of resources that is not compatible with circularity, draws attention to the modernisation of heat networks, which can play a significant role in heat decarbonisation; stresses the potential of digital tools for smart energy management while prioritizing cyber security and data protection;
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Recalls that the energy transition will require between EUR 520 and 575 billion in annual infrastructure investment; calls on the Commission to develop sustainable investment criteria which are fully in line with the climate and integration goalsgoals thus excluding fossil fuel infrastructure to safeguard against a fossil fuel lock-in;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Highlights the importance of assessing ex-ante and anticipating the need for new energy production, transmission, distribution and conversion infrastructure in order to optimise its use in a climate- neutral economy and to ensure its social, environmental and economic viability;
Amendment 133 #
8. Calls on the Commission to use the revision of Regulation (EU) No 347/2013 on trans-European energy infrastructure as an opportunity to align the 10-year network development planning with the Paris agreement and the need to achieve climate neutrality by 2050, as well as to include energy system integration in the Regulation’s objectives and the 10-year network development planning;
Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls for the mass deployment of renewable and decarbonised energy; encourages the Commission to propose more ambitious targets for renewables in order to increase their share of such energy in electricity generation, heavy industry, transport, construction, heating and coolingin all sectors;
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. WelcomNotes the adoption of the European Hydrogen Strategy; is convince and that renewable and decarbonised hydrogen can help reduce persistent emissions from industrial processes and heavy transport, which cannot be decarbonised through the use of zero- carbon electricity; recognizes that the extension of hydrogen applications to different end use sectors must correlate to the availability of renewable hydrogen; recalls also the need to decarbonise existing hydrogen production by replacing it with renewable hydrogen;
Amendment 174 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Commission to extend the obligation laid down in Directive (EU) 2018/2001 for Member States to issue guarantees of origin for low- and zero- carbon gases, renewable hydrogen and for renewables;
Amendment 182 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Stresses the need to accelerate research and development on technologies for CO2 capture, storage and reusef energy savings, renewable energy generation, storage and grid-balancing technologies;
Amendment 187 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Commission to propose ambitious targets for the decarbonisation of road, maritime, rail and air transport primarily through electrification and where this is not possible sustainably produced renewable fuels; welcomes the Commission’s announcement of the deployment of one million charging points for electric vehicles; stresses the need to adapt the electrification networks for Europe’s vehicle fleet; stresses the importance of public transport in reducing energy demand and the need to develop and expand decarbonized public transport in both urban and rural areas;
Amendment 198 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Notes that maintaining the balance of electricity grids and managing demand and production peaks will be more complex with an increasingly decentralised and renewable generation mix; recalls that Member States remain free to determine their energy mix, the diversity of which is fundamental to ensuring security of supply, but also offers new social and economic opportunities through an increasingly decentralised and renewable generation mix empowering cooperatives, municipalities, and energy communities and creating local employment;
Amendment 215 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Highlights the need to reduce regulatory barriers, improve access to capital, phase out direct and indirect fossil fuel subsidies and further support energy storage projects along transmission and distribution networks and at consumption sites;
Amendment 231 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Recalls the role that greenrenewable hydrogen can play in balancing grids by using any surplus renewable electricity production;
Amendment 241 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Recalls the importance of interconnectors and cooperation between network operators; welcomnotes the establishment of regional coordination centres under Regulation (EU) 2019/943;
Amendment 244 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. CRecalls on the Commission to explore ways of further encouraging the development of a European market for demand-sidethat demand-side measures and improved demand side management can provide for better flexibility;
Amendment 257 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Stresses that a more decentralised and better integrated energy system requires better forecasting of energy demand; highlights, in this regard, the crucial role of statistical and meteorological data; calls on the Commission and the Member States to develop an internalprioritize cyber security, data protection; recalls the need to regulate the market for digital energy technologies;
Amendment 259 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 3
Subheading 3
Ensuring energy accessibility for all consumersergy system as a driver for social and environmental advancement and green job creation;
Amendment 263 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Amendment 264 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 b (new)
Paragraph 19 b (new)
19 b. Highlights the need for a just transition and calls on the Commission and Member States to assure the success of a just transition in all relevant legislative proposals;
Amendment 270 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Recalls that the primary objective of Union action in the field ofEuropean Pillar of Social Rights states that envergy is to ensure the proper functioning of the market; calls on the Commission to propose the necessary legislative changes to ensure equal rights for all consumers and undistorted pryone has the right to access essential services of good quality, including water, sanitation, energy, transport, financial services and digital communications and therefore supports for access to such services signals reflecting the real cost of energy and ithall be available especially for those in need; calls contribut the Commission toand the decarbonisation of the economy; welcomes the initiative to revise Directive 2003/96/ECMember States to tackle energy poverty and protect vulnerable households by establishing a right to energy and a ban on disconnection;
Amendment 277 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Is convinced of the need to encourage energy consumers to be more active; calls on the Commission to assess the remaining barriers to self-consumption, especially for industrial consumerable energy consumers and energy communities to actively shape the energy system and to create social, environmental and economic benefits; calls on the Commission to assess the remaining barriers to self-consumption that exist for industry and individual self-consumers, improve the regulatory framework which would empower renewables self- consumers to generate, consume, store, and sell electricity without facing burdens;
Amendment 285 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Reiterates the potential of energy communities in a decentralized renewables based energy system and micro grids to develop access to more sustainable energy, especially for remote areas, islands and the outermost regionncourage participatory governance, tackle energy poverty, create local jobs and strengthen local communities;
Amendment 288 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22 a. Recalls that the energy sector provides an essential public service; calls on the Member States to take responsibility either through regulation, public planning or direct provision of services, where the private sector fails to deliver on the social and environmental challenges ahead;
Amendment 292 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 b (new)
Paragraph 22 b (new)
22 b. Encourages cities and municipalities to take ownership of the transition towards a sustainable integrated, renewable based energy system adapted to local needs and preferences; is convinced that re-municipalisation can bring benefits to citizens, consumers and the environment and promote innovation in the energy sector;
Amendment 298 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Recalls that one of the objectives of the Energy Union is to reduce our import dependency; considers that improving energy efficiency, the expansion of renewables, and the creation of synergies can help achieve this objective;
Amendment 305 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Stresses the importance of increasing the competitiveness of European technologies to ensure the autonomy of the Union in the strategic energy sector; calls on the Commission to support research and innovation through the various structural and sectoral fundsa public industrial policy that promotes sustainable technologies and manufacturing capacities in the Union to meet the needs of the transition towards a sustainable decarbonized energy system; stresses that this requires public planning, democratic governance and substantial support for a strong industrial base; recalls the Union’s global leadershipcapabilities in satellite emission measurement technologies;
Amendment 314 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. WelcomNotes the initiatives undertaken for strategic value chains; calls fornotes the establishment of an alliance for decarbonised energy technologies; calls on the Commission to encourage the participation of SMEs in these alliances in order to involve more Member Stateindustry alliances; calls on the Commission to assure a transparent governance of all alliances including the participation of civil society, NGOs and independent experts, as well as safe guards against fossil and nuclear interests;
Amendment 318 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25 a. Expresses its concern about the involvement of Hydrogen Europe, a fossil fuel-supported lobbying group acting as the secretariat of the European Clean Hydrogen Alliance; denounces the unbalanced composition and the absence of civil society organisations, environmental NGOs, independent experts or even renewable energy companies as members of this Alliance; brands this European Clean Hydrogen Alliance as a greenwashed fossil lobby consortium; calls on the Commission to immediately abolish this Alliance;