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European Parliament2019-2024

Committee on Industry, Research and Energy

2020/2241(INI)

11.12.2020

AMENDMENTS1 - 325Draft reportChristophe Grudler(PE658.868v01-00)

A European Strategy for Energy System Integration(2020/2241(INI))

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Amendment 1Jakop G. Dalundeon behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolutionCitation 1

Motion for a resolution Amendment

— having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Article 194 thereof,

— having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Articles 91, 172 and 194 thereof,

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Motion for a resolutionCitation 3 a (new)


- having regard to the Commission communication of 16 February 2016 entitled ‘An EU Strategy on Heating and Cooling’ COM(2016) 51,

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Amendment 3Nicolás González Casares, Alicia Homs Ginel, Carlos Zorrinho, Maria-Manuel Leitão-Marques, Jens Geier, Robert Hajšel, Csaba Molnár, Adriana Maldonado López, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Josianne Cutajar, Niels Fuglsang



- having regard to the Commission communication of 8 July 2020 entitled ‘A hydrogen strategy for a climate-neutral Europe’(COM(2020)0301),

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- having regard to the Commission communication of 19 November 2020 entitled “An EU Strategy to harness the potential of offshore renewable energy for a climate neutral future” (COM(2020)741 final),

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Motion for a resolutionCitation 9 b (new)


9 b having regard to the Commission communication of 17 September 2020 entitled ‘Stepping up Europe’s 2030 climate ambition - Investing in a climate-neutral future for the benefit of our people’ (COM(2020)0562),

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Amendment 6Christophe Grudler, Mauri Pekkarinen, Ivars Ijabs, Bart Groothuis, Morten Petersen, Iskra Mihaylova, Klemen Grošelj, Martina Dlabajová, Nicola Danti, Valérie Hayer

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- having regard to the Commission communication of 19 November 2020 entitled 'an EU Strategy to harness the potential of offshore renewable energy for a climate-neutral future' (COM(2020)741),

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- having regard to the Council conclusions of 11 December 2020 on a new EU climate target for 2030,

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- having regard to Directive (EU) 2018/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2018 amending Directive 2012/27/EU on energy efficiency;

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- having regard to Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2018 on the Governance of the Energy Union and Climate Action, amending Regulations (EC) No663/2009 and (EC) No 715/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council, Directives 94/22/EC, 98/70/EC, 2009/31/EC, 2009/73/EC, 2010/31/EU, 2012/27/EU and 2013/30/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council, Council Directives 2009/119/EC and (EU) 2015/652 and repealing Regulation (EU) No525/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council,

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- having regard to Directive 2014/94/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2014 on the deployment of alternative fuels infrastructure,

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Amendment 11Margarita de la Pisa Carriónon behalf of the ECR GroupPietro Fiocchi, Jessica Stegrud, Robert Roos, Rob Rooken



- having regard to the report of May 2019 of the IEA-OECD1a on Nuclear Power in a Clean Energy System,_________________1a Nuclear Power in a Clean Energy System https://webstore.iea.org/download/direct/2779

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- having regard to its resolution of 02 July 2020 on a comprehensive European approach to energy storage1a,_________________1a Texts adopted, P9_TA (2020)0198.

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Motion for a resolution

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Citation 31 b (new)


- having regard to its resolution of 10 July 2020 on the revision of the guidelines for trans-European energy infrastructure2a,_________________2a Texts adopted, P9_TA(2020)0199.

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Amendment 14Paolo Borchiaon behalf of the ID Group



- having regard to its resolution of 10 July 2020 on a comprehensive European approach to energy storage,

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Amendment 15Sylvia Limmer

Motion for a resolutionRecital A


A. whereas the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission have endorsed the goal of a climate-neutral economy by 2050;

A. whereas the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission have endorsed the goal of a climate-neutral economy by 2050, even though this is uneconomical, technically impossible and does not make environmental sense;

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A. whereas the Union is committed to stepping up efforts to tackle climate change and to delivering on the implementation of the 2015 Paris Agreement on climat exchange following the 21st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (the ‘Paris Agreement’) 3a on the basis of equity and best available science, taking its fair share of the global effort to limiting the global temperature increase to 1,5°C above pre-industrial levels;

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Amendment 17Eleonora Evi, Ignazio Corrao




A. whereas the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission have endorsed the goal of a climate-neutral economy climate neutrality as soon as possible and by 2050 at the latest; whereas the Union needs to take more ambitious measures to tackle the climate crisis, with a view to limiting the increase in global temperature to 1,5oC above pre-industrial levels;

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Amendment 18Cornelia Ernst, Marisa Matias, Marc Botenga, Manuel Bompard, Sira Rego




A. whereas the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission are committed to the Paris Agreement and have endorsed the European Green Deal and the goal of achieving a fair transition leading to climate neutrality by 2050;

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Amendment 19Christophe Grudler, Mauri Pekkarinen, Ivars Ijabs, Morten Petersen, Iskra Mihaylova, Klemen Grošelj, Martina Dlabajová, Nicola Danti, Claudia Gamon, Valérie Hayer




A. whereas the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission have endorsed the goal of a climate-neutral economy by 2050, in line with the Paris Agreement;

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Amendment 20Margarita de la Pisa Carriónon behalf of the ECR GroupPietro Fiocchi, Jessica Stegrud

Motion for a resolutionRecital A a (new)

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A a. whereas the objectives of a climate-neutral economy by 2050 should not lead to job destruction, price disruption, or a reduction of the competitiveness ofindustries in Europe;

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Amendment 21Massimiliano Salini, Tom Berendsen, Ioan-Rareş Bogdan, Cristian-Silviu Buşoi, Christian Ehler, Gheorghe Falcă, Marian-Jean Marinescu, Ivan Štefanec, Antonio Tajani, Pernille Weiss, Salvatore De Meo, Maria da Graça Carvalho, András Gyürk, Edina Tóth, Jerzy Buzek, Markus Pieper, Sara Skyttedal, Sven Schulze, Tomas Tobé, Pilar del Castillo Vera

Motion for a resolutionRecital B


B. whereas Parliament has endorsed the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 60% by 2030;

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B. whereas Parliament has endorsed the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 60% by 2030, even though a system based on renewable energy sources will not work economically, technically and environmentally in the foreseeable future;

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B. whereas Parliament has voted by a majority of its Members the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 60% by 2030, while co-legislators have decided for lower targets and further negotiations are foreseen;

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Amendment 25Christophe Grudler, Mauri Pekkarinen, Ivars Ijabs, Iskra Mihaylova, Klemen Grošelj, Martina Dlabajová, Nicola Danti, Valérie Hayer



B. whereas Parliament has endorsed B. whereas the Commission has

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the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 60% by 2030;

proposed a common greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction objective of at least 55% by 2050, while the Parliament has endorsed the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 60% by 2030;

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B. whereas Parliament has endorsed the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 60% by 2030, which requires more ambitious targets for renewables;

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Amendment 27Jessica Stegrud, Rob Rooken, Robert Roos

Motion for a resolutionRecital B a (new)


B a. whereas any legislative initiative of the Commission, within the framework of the European Green Deal, should be preceded by a publicly available cost analysis as well as a long-term estimation of its effect on global CO2 emissions;

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Amendment 28Margarita de la Pisa Carriónon behalf of the ECR GroupPietro Fiocchi

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B a. whereas any legislative action taken by the Commission in the field of energy system integration and envisaged in the Communication should be preceded by a thorough and publicly available cost analysis study;

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B a. whereas achieving climate neutrality requires moving away from a system based largely on fossil fuels and accomplishing towards a highly energy-efficient climate-neutral and renewable-based system;

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B a. whereas the 2020 State of the Energy Union report has shown that the energy demand is overall decreasing in

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the EU but is increasing in certain sectors, such as transport;

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Motion for a resolutionRecital B b (new)


B b. whereas 70% of the primary energy used in the EU came from fossil fuels (oil, natural gas and coal) in 20174b;_________________4b Eurostat

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Motion for a resolutionRecital B c (new)


B c. whereas the International Energy Agency estimates that approximately one third of the global methane emissions come from the energy sector;

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Motion for a resolutionRecital C


C. whereas energy system integration means the coordinated planning and operation of all energy carriers and infrastructure connected to all final consumers;

C. whereas energy system integration means the coordinated planning and operation of the energy system ‘as a whole’, across multiple energy carriers and infrastructures connected, and all final consumers playing an active role with the objective of delivering zero-carbon, reliable, resource-efficient and secure energy services, at the least possible cost in line with the European Green Deal, the Paris Agreement and the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development;

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Amendment 34Margarita de la Pisa Carriónon behalf of the ECR GroupPietro Fiocchi, Jessica Stegrud, Elżbieta Kruk, Evžen Tošenovský




C. whereas energy system integration means co-production, combined use, conversion, and substitution of different energy supply- and demand forms (i.e. electricity, heat, fuels) in a view of the system optimization that requires coordinated planning and operation of all energy carriers and infrastructure connected to all final consumers;

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C. whereas energy system integration means the coordinated planning and operation of all types of energy, all energy carriers and infrastructure connected to all final consumers, also by taking into consideration the existing structures, their limits and potential;

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C. whereas energy system integration means the coordinated planning and operation of a largely renewable based energy system as a whole and infrastructure across multiple energy carriers, infrastructures, and consumption sectors;

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Amendment 37Christophe Grudler, Mauri Pekkarinen, Ivars Ijabs, Bart Groothuis, Morten Petersen, Iskra Mihaylova, Klemen Grošelj, Nicola Danti, Claudia Gamon, Valérie Hayer

Motion for a resolutionRecital C a (new)


C a. whereas the integration of energy systems can bring a response to many of the challenges stemming from energy transition, and particularly the challenge

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of decarbonisation, optimisation and balancing of the energy networks, guaranteeing security of supply, and maintaining the EU’s strategic autonomy;

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Amendment 38Christophe Grudler, Mauri Pekkarinen, Ivars Ijabs, Bart Groothuis, Iskra Mihaylova, Klemen Grošelj, Martina Dlabajová, Nicola Danti, Claudia Gamon, Valérie Hayer

Motion for a resolutionRecital C b (new)


C b. whereas the twin green and digital transition of the energy networks will require unprecedented public and private investments in infrastructure modernisation and new infrastructure deployment when necessary, as well as investments in buildings renovation, and research and development;

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Motion for a resolutionRecital D


D. whereas energy system integration can keep costs for European authorities and European citizens within realistic and acceptable limits;

D. whereas energy system integration is crucial to establish a cascading priority to first apply energy efficiency and savings, subsequently direct electrification and for those applications that cannot be abated by other means the use of sustainable, renewables based fuels as well as enhance used of heat and storage to foster further integration across sectors, thus supporting the energy

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transition and boosting citizen participation while keeping costs for European authorities and European citizens within affordable limits;

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D. whereas energy system integration can accelerate the transition towards a climate neutral economy while keeping the costs within acceptable limits, strengthening energy security, protecting health and the environment, and promoting growth, innovation and global industrial leadership;

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Amendment 41Cornelia Ernst, Marisa Matias, Marc Botenga, Manuel Bompard




D. whereas energy system integration can make efficient use of European authorities’ resources and contribute to achieving social and environmental objectives such as healthy indoor climate, tackling energy poverty and reaching climate neutrality and green job creation;

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D. whereas a properly designed and implemented energy system should aim at improving the competitiveness of European industries on a global level and increase the accessibility and affordability of energy for citizens while keeping the costs of transformation in check;

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D. whereas energy system integration can reduce costs for European authorities and European citizens, while ensuring an effective and deep decarbonisation of the European economy in line with the Paris Agreement and the UN Sustainable Development Goals;

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Amendment 44Massimiliano Salini, Tom Berendsen, Ioan-Rareş Bogdan, Cristian-Silviu Buşoi, Christian Ehler, Gheorghe Falcă, Marian-Jean Marinescu, Ivan Štefanec, Antonio Tajani, Pernille Weiss, Salvatore De Meo, Maria da Graça Carvalho, András Gyürk, Edina Tóth, Jerzy Buzek, Maria Spyraki, Henna Virkkunen, Markus Pieper, Sven Schulze, Pilar del Castillo Vera

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D. whereas energy system integration aims to keep costs for European authorities, European businesses and European citizens within realistic and acceptable limits; a cost efficient energy sector integration must be enforced;

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D. whereas energy system integration can keep costs for European authorities and European citizens within realistic and affordable limits;

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Motion for a resolutionRecital D a (new)


D a. whereas energy efficiency first means taking utmost account in energy planning, and in policy and investment decisions, of alternative cost efficient energy efficiency measures to make energy demand and energy supply more

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efficient, in particular by means of cost effective end-use energy savings, demand response initiatives and more efficient conversion, transmission and distribution of energy, whilst still achieving the objectives of those decisions 4a;_________________4a Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2018 on the Governance of the Energy Union and Climate Action.

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D a. whereas renewable energy such as wind and solar energy are by their nature an unreliable source of energy as these forms of energy are not always available; underlines the importance of keeping the total costs of these forms of energy in mind as there are the costs of storage of energy, the costs of back-up energy-providers and the grid-connection costs;

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D a. whereas the climate emergency

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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;

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Amendment 49Patrizia Toia



D a. whereas consumer rights and protections in the gas and district heating sectors are not aligned to those in the electricity sector;

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D a. whereas the COVID-19 crisis has shown that it is crucial to be able to rely on a safe and flexible energy system;

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Recital D b (new)


D b. whereas nuclear and hydropower form the backbone of low-carbon electricity generation while and provide three-quarters of the global low-carbon generation, on the other hand, over the past 50 years, the use of nuclear energy has reduced carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by more than 60 gigatons, which is equivalent to almost two years of global energy-related emissions according to the IEA-OECD report;

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Motion for a resolutionRecital D c (new)


D c. whereas the IEA-OECD report recommends several government actions that aim to ensure that existing nuclear power plants can operate as long as they are safe, support the construction of new nuclear power plants, and encourage the development of new nuclear technologies;

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Motion for a resolutionParagraph 1

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1. Supports the direction set out by the Commission in its Communication on a strategy for energy system integration; 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 to its success;

1. Supports the direction set out by the Commission in its Communication on a strategy for energy system integration namely a cascading priority for energy efficiency and savings, direct electrification and sustainable, renewables based fuels for applications that do not have another alternative; 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 to its success;

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1. Takes notes of the direction set out by the Commission in its Communication on a strategy for energy system integration;

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1. Welcomes the Communication by the Commission on a strategy for energy system integration; notes that this general direction set out in the document requires clarifications regarding the tangible implementation of proposed actions which should be further developed based on thorough impact assessment and taking into account the principle of technological neutrality and in close cooperation with the industries concerned;

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1. Supports the direction set out by the Commission in its Communication 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; believes that the public sector plays a crucial role in its success;

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1. Supports the direction set out by the Commission in its Communication on a

1. Supports the direction set out by the Commission in its Communication on a

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strategy for energy system integration; 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 to its success;

strategy for energy system integration; calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that it is implemented adequately in time and effectively in a spirit of cooperation; considers the private sector as an important actor to ensure its effective implementation;

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Amendment 58Christophe Grudler, Mauri Pekkarinen, Ivars Ijabs, Bart Groothuis, Morten Petersen, Iskra Mihaylova, Klemen Grošelj, Martina Dlabajová, Nicola Danti, Claudia Gamon, Valérie Hayer




1. Supports the direction set out by the Commission in its Communication on a strategy for energy system integration; calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that it is implemented rapidly in a spirit of solidarity; underlines that the private sector will play a key role in its success;

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1. Supports the direction set out by the Commission in its Communication on a strategy for energy system integration; calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that it is implemented

1. Supports the direction set out by the Commission in its Communication on a strategy for energy system integration; calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that it is implemented

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rapidly in a spirit of solidarity; encourages the private sector to contribute to its success;

rapidly in a spirit of solidarity; encourages the private sector to contribute to its success and support the building of an energy system that drives the EU towards climate neutrality in 2050 at the latest;

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2. Believes that such a strategy can help the Union achieve its climate goals while maintaining energy accessibility and security of supply through the development of an efficient, integrated, resilient, smart and decarbonised system;

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2. Is of the opinion that such a strategy, when translated into actions with a realistic approach and with economical viable measures, can help the Union to achieve a transition to an economy with more respect towards the environment while maintaining energy accessibility, affordability, and security of supply through the development of an efficient, integrated, resilient, smart and decarbonised system without

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compromising but further strengthening the competitiveness of European industries;

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2. Believes that such a strategy can help the Union achieve its climate goals while ensuring energy accessibility and security of supply through an effective development of an efficient, integrated, resilient, flexible and smart system with the aim of reaching gradually the decarbonisation targets;

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2. Believes that such a strategy can help the Union to set out a path to achieve its climate goals while maintaining energy accessibility, affordability and security of supply through the development of a highly energy efficient fully renewables based, integrated, resilient and smart system;

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2. Believes that such a strategy can help the Union achieve its climate goals while maintaining energy accessibility and security of supply through the development of a circular, highly energy and resource efficient, integrated, resilient, smart, renewables-based and multi-modal system;

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Amendment 65Massimiliano Salini, Tom Berendsen, Ioan-Rareş Bogdan, Cristian-Silviu Buşoi, Christian Ehler, Gheorghe Falcă, Marian-Jean Marinescu, Ivan Štefanec, Antonio Tajani, Pernille Weiss, Salvatore De Meo, Maria da Graça Carvalho, András Gyürk, Edina Tóth, Jerzy Buzek, Maria Spyraki, Henna Virkkunen, Pascal Arimont, Markus Pieper, Sven Schulze, Pilar del Castillo Vera




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, interconnected, resilient, smart and decarbonised system;

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Amendment 66Nicolás González Casares, Alicia Homs Ginel, Carlos Zorrinho, Maria-Manuel Leitão-Marques, Jens Geier, Robert Hajšel, Csaba Molnár, Adriana Maldonado López, Lina

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Gálvez Muñoz, Josianne Cutajar, Niels Fuglsang




2. Believes that such a strategy can help the Union achieve its climate goals while maintaining energy accessibility and security of supply through the development of a just, efficient, integrated, resilient, cost-competitive, smart and decarbonised system;

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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;

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Amendment 68Zdzisław Krasnodębski, Evžen Tošenovský, Margarita de la Pisa Carrión, Grzegorz Tobiszowski, Elżbieta Kruk

Motion for a resolutionParagraph 2 a (new)


2 a. Notes the Commission's intention to propose a revision of number of

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relevant acts relevant for the Strategy; emphasizes in this respect that revision should be carried out with an utmost care for coherent long-term approach and stable regulatory framework for industries concerned and insists that a detailed cost-benefit analysis should be carried out in each case in order to develop an appropriate pathway of development; urges that revision should take into due account the obligations arising from current legislative acts that required financial outlays from Member States and industries and return on these investments should not be jeopardized by legislative changes creating stranded costs; recalls in this respect that Directive 2014/94/EU laid down on Member States requirements on the bunkering of LNG in maritime and inland waterway transport until 2025 and2030 respectively, as well as to ensure adequate number of CNG/LNG refuelling points for motor vehicles;

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Amendment 69Christophe Grudler, Mauri Pekkarinen, Ivars Ijabs, Bart Groothuis, Iskra Mihaylova, Klemen Grošelj, Martina Dlabajová, Nicola Danti



2 a. Recalls the importance of taking into account the diversity of national energy systems and challenges; encourages the Commission to maintain an approach that is as neutral as possible to allow each Member State to use the most efficient decarbonisation solutions according to their needs and resources;

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Amendment 70Zdzisław Krasnodębski, Evžen Tošenovský, Margarita de la Pisa Carrión, Grzegorz Tobiszowski, Elżbieta Kruk

Motion for a resolutionParagraph 2 b (new)


2 b. Notes that implementation of energy system integration while intended to reduce costs of the energy transformation in Europe in a long run would involves immediate significant costs passed on the end-users; asks therefore the Commission to present costs analysis of the proposed changes per sector involved and per Member State

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Optimising and decarbonising energy systems

Highly energy efficient and renewables based energy systems

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Amendment 72Massimiliano Salini, Tom Berendsen, Ioan-Rareş Bogdan, Cristian-Silviu Buşoi, Christian Ehler, Gheorghe Falcă, Marian-Jean Marinescu, Ivan Štefanec, Antonio Tajani, Pernille Weiss, Salvatore De Meo, Maria da Graça Carvalho, András Gyürk, Edina Tóth, Jerzy Buzek, Maria Spyraki, Henna Virkkunen, Sven Schulze, Pilar del Castillo Vera


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3. Reiterates its support for the energy efficiency first principle and recalls that the most sustainable energy is energy which is not consumed;

3. Acknowledges the importance of the energy efficiency first principle and recalls that direct electrification, where possible, presents an important pathway towards decarbonisation. Highlights the need to develop a resilient and climate neutral energy system based on the principle of “cost-efficiency";

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3. Reiterates its support for an efficient energy system in which all sectors will look for a better cost efficiency of products and the implementation of energy from sources that will help to reduce the carbon footprint and contribute to the energy independence of the European Union;

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3. Reiterates its support for the energy efficiency first principle and recalls that the most sustainable energy is energy which is

3. Reiterates its support for the energy efficiency first principle and recalls that the most sustainable energy is the one not

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not consumed; consumed, meaning that energy savings and efficiency gains must be prioritised;

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3. Reiterates its support for the energy efficiency first principle and recalls that the most sustainable energy is energy generated, as much as possible, from sustainable sources;

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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;

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3. Reiterates its support for the energy efficiency first principle and recalls that the most sustainable energy is the energy that is not consumed;

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3. Reiterates its support for the energy efficiency first principle and recalls that the most sustainable energy is energy which is not consumed; calls for making the energy efficiency first principle operational in all upcoming revisions of Union and national legislation and methodologies, notably for scenario and infrastructure planning and Cost Benefit Analysis;

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3. Reiterates its support for the energy efficiency first principle and recalls that the most sustainable energy is energy which is not consumed; stresses the need for portfolio of climate-friendly solutions to enable the most energy-efficient and cost

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effective technologies to thrive in the market;

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Amendment 80Cornelia Ernst, Marisa Matias, Manuel Bompard



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;

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Amendment 81Massimiliano Salini, Tom Berendsen, Ioan-Rareş Bogdan, Cristian-Silviu Buşoi, Christian Ehler, Gheorghe Falcă, Marian-Jean Marinescu, Ivan Štefanec, Antonio Tajani, Pernille Weiss, Salvatore De Meo, Maria da Graça Carvalho, András Gyürk, Edina Tóth, Maria Spyraki, Henna Virkkunen, Pascal Arimont, Sven Schulze, Pilar del Castillo Vera



3 a. Notes the high energy consumption in the water sector needs; calls on the Commission to consider energy-efficient measures for the EU water sector and the possibility to use

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treated waste water as an “on-site” source of renewable energy in the Energy System Integration;

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3 a. Recalls the importance of a technology-neutral approach that ensures that all cost-effective and energy-efficient options are made available to achieve climate neutrality in 2050 and a just transition in the EU;

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3 a. Underlines important benefits of increased energy efficiency efforts such reduced energy import dependencies, cheaper consumption bills, increased industrial competiveness, as well as climate and environment benefits;

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3 a. Stresses the need to accelerate the transition to an energy system based on renewable energies and faster electrification of end-use sectors, where possible, bearing in mind costs and energy-efficiency;

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3 b. Calls for making the energy efficiency first principle operational in all upcoming revisions of Union and national legislation and methodologies, notably for scenario and infrastructure planning and Cost Benefit Analysis;

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renewable based energy system;

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Motion for a resolutionParagraph 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;

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Motion for a resolutionParagraph 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;

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4. Deplores the insufficient progress made by Member States, as set out in the Energy Efficiency Progress Report; encourages the Commission to propose more ambitious targets, taking into account its recommendations as part of the Energy Union governance process; welcomes, in this regard, the renovation wave strategy;

4. Notes that not all Member States have reached the Energy Efficiency targets for 2020, as set out in the Energy Efficiency Progress Report; encourages the Commission to design a more effective set of targets, taking into account its recommendations as part of the Energy Union governance process; encourages, in this regard, an effective and flexible application of the renovation wave strategy in each Member State;

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4. Takes note of the insufficient progress made by Member States, asset out in the Energy Efficiency Progress Report; encourages the Commission to analyse in close cooperation with Member States and representatives of the industries concerned the reasons for not meeting the set numbers and stresses that no new targets should be set without removing the existing barriers and before achieving the current targets;

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4. Deplores the insufficient progress made by Member States and by the Union as a whole, as set out in the Energy Efficiency Progress Report; encourages the Commission to propose more ambitious targets, taking into account its recommendations as part of the Energy Union governance process; calls on the Commission to review the existing measures and adopt more targeted policies, especially in those sectors, like transport, where progress was insufficient; welcomes,in this regard, the renovation wave strategy;

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Amendment 92Massimiliano Salini, Tom Berendsen, Ioan-Rareş Bogdan, Cristian-Silviu Buşoi, Christian Ehler, Gheorghe Falcă, Marian-Jean Marinescu, Ivan Štefanec, Antonio Tajani, Pernille Weiss, Salvatore De Meo, Maria da Graça Carvalho, András Gyürk, Edina Tóth, Jerzy Buzek, Maria Spyraki, Henna Virkkunen, Markus Pieper, Sara Skyttedal, Sven Schulze, Tomas Tobé, Pilar del Castillo Vera




4. Acknowledges the insufficient progress made by Member States, as set out in the Energy Efficiency Progress Report; encourages the Commission to explore the impacts of revised targets on businesses, notably SMEs, taking into account its recommendations as part of the Energy Union governance process; welcomes, in this regard, the renovation wave strategy; emphasizes that the renovation of the existing building stock

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does not fully compensate for the need to produce more low carbon energy;

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4. Deplores the insufficient progress made by Member States on energy efficiency and renovation, as presented in the 2020 Energy Efficiency Progress Report; takes note of the decision of the Commission to revise Directive (EU) 2018/2002 on Energy Efficiency, taking into account its recommendations as part of the Energy Union governance process; welcomes, in this regard, the renovation wave strategy and the upcoming revision of Directive (EU) 2018/844 on the Energy Performance of Buildings;

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Amendment 94Nicolás González Casares, Alicia Homs Ginel, Carlos Zorrinho, Maria-Manuel Leitão-Marques, Jens Geier, Robert Hajšel, Csaba Molnár, Adriana Maldonado López, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Niels Fuglsang



4. Deplores the insufficient progress made by Member States, as set out in the Energy Efficiency Progress Report; encourages the Commission to propose more ambitious targets, taking into account its recommendations as part of the Energy

4. Deplores the insufficient progress made by Member States, as set out in the Energy Efficiency Progress Report; encourages the Commission to propose more ambitious targets and instruments to achieve them in the upcoming legislative

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Union governance process; welcomes, in this regard, the renovation wave strategy;

reviews of the energy and climate regulation, taking into account its recommendations as part of the Energy Union governance process; welcomes, in this regard, the renovation wave strategy and the Stepping up Europe’s 2030 climate ambition communication;

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4. Deplores the insufficient progress made by Member States, as set out in the Energy Efficiency Progress Report; calls on the Commission to propose more ambitious targets, taking into account its recommendations as part of the Energy Union governance process and the Climate Target Plan; as well as an ambitious revision of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive; welcomes in this regard the renovation wave strategy;

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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

5. Calls on the Commission to extend the principle of energy efficiency first to the entire value chain and to all end-uses; underlines necessary requirements on

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reuse of waste, energy and waste heat from industrial processes, buildings and data centres; 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;

circularity and waste recycling and envisages a similar legislative framework for excess energy and unavoidable waste heat from highly energy efficient industrial processes, building, data centres or other processes; calls for a necessary modernisation of heat networks to 4th and 5th generation high-efficiency low-temperature networks based on renewable energy, which must play a significant role in heat decarbonisation; calls in this context for a further implementation of the heating and cooling strategy, including when revising the Renewable Energy Directive, the Energy Efficiency Directive 5a, as well as the creation of an enabling framework when revising the environmental and energy state aid guidelines6a; draws attention to the potential of digital tools for smart energy management;

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5. Calls on the Commission to extend the principle of energy efficiency to the entire value chain and to all end-uses;

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underlines the potential of circularity and reuse of waste, energy and waste heat from industrial processes, buildings and data centres; 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;

legislative instrument that covers both renewable and low-carbon fuels, based on full life-cycle GHG emission savings across the entire value chain; underlines the potential of circularity and reuse of waste, energy and waste heat from industrial processes, buildings and data centres; recognises the potential key role of refineries in a circular energy system, for their capability to recycle biological waste and residues from agriculture, food and forestry into fuels and other products; recognises low-carbon liquid fuels (based on e.g. hydrogen and captured CO2 or biomass and waste) as a central part of the solution to help reaching climate neutrality; 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;

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Amendment 98Massimiliano Salini, Tom Berendsen, Ioan-Rareş Bogdan, Cristian-Silviu Buşoi, Christian Ehler, Gheorghe Falcă, Marian-Jean Marinescu, Ivan Štefanec, Antonio Tajani, Pernille Weiss, Salvatore De Meo, Maria da Graça Carvalho, András Gyürk, Edina Tóth, Jerzy Buzek, Maria Spyraki, Henna Virkkunen, Pascal Arimont, Sven Schulze, Pilar del Castillo Vera



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; 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;

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 organic waste from cities and agricultural sector, energy and waste heat from industrial processes, buildings and data centres; calls on the Commission and the Member States to develop effective incentives and business models for the uncoupling and use of industrial waste heat; draws attention to the replacement of

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old and inefficient heating systems and the modernisation of heat networks, which can play a significant role in heat decarbonisation; stresses the potential of digital tools for smart energy management;

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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 as well as the potential of biogas/biomethane in terms of resource efficiency, cost-efficiency, and in supporting the development of new local revenue streams, such as in rural areas; 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;

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5. Calls on the Commission to extend the principle of energy efficiency to the

5. Calls on the Commission to extend the principle of energy efficiency to the

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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; 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;

entire value chain and to all end-uses; calls on the Commission to propose concrete initiatives to reduce energy losses along the transmission and distribution networks, through the revision of Regulation (EU) 347/2013 on a trans-European energy infrastructure and Regulation (EU) 2017/1938 on the security of gas supply;

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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 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;

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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, energy produced from bio-waste or in wastewater treatment plants; 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;

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5. Calls on the Commission to explore the possibility of extension of 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 datacentres; 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;

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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 and agriculture; 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;

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Amendment 105Claudia Gamon, Klemen Grošelj



5 a. Considers district heating in densely populated areas to be a very efficient tool for energy storage providing the necessary flexibility to integrate a greater share of intermittent renewables and waste heat from industrial processes; calls on the Commission and the Member States to support and develop highly energy-efficient district heating networks; moreover, calls on the Commission to take heat infrastructure and thermal storage into account when developing the Ten-Year Network Development Plans for both the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO-E) and the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Gas (ENTSO-G);

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Amendment 106Christophe Grudler, Mauri Pekkarinen, Ivars Ijabs, Morten Petersen, Iskra Mihaylova, Klemen Grošelj, Martina Dlabajová, Nicola Danti



5 a. Welcomes the new EU Methane Strategy; recalls that it is essential to rapidly deploy methane emissions monitoring systems, relying on satellite observation technologies such as the ones developed through the Copernicus programme; welcomes the private initiatives undertaken to reduce methane emissions, such as the Oil and Gas Methane Partnership and the Methane Guiding Principles;

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5 a. Calls on the Commission to take initiatives to make the valorisation of unavoidable waste heat mandatory, as resource for channelling into heat networks or storage;

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Amendment 108Christophe Grudler, Mauri Pekkarinen, Ivars Ijabs, Iskra Mihaylova, Klemen Grošelj


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5 b. Calls on the Commission to propose measures to further reduce methane emissions in the energy sector, starting with introducing a binding methane intensity reduction objective of 0.2% by 2025 for all gases sold within the EU in Directive (EU) 2019/692 on the internal market for natural gas; welcomes the Commission’s proposal to make Measuring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) and Leak Detection And Repair (LDAR) mandatory;

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5 c. Underlines the potential of circular economy solutions to reduce final energy demand, such as the reuse of waste, energy and waste heat from industrial processes, buildings and data centres; calls on the Commission to propose measures to incentivise the reuse of waste energy and heat in the revision of Directive 2008/98/EC on waste reduction; underlines that sustainably produced biogas, including biomethane, can help reuse waste stemming from agriculture, food consumption and forestry;

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Amendment 110Christophe Grudler, Mauri Pekkarinen, Ivars Ijabs, Iskra Mihaylova, Klemen Grošelj,

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5 d. Draws attention to the challenge of decarbonising heating and cooling; highlights the potential of modern, low-temperature district heating networks supplied by renewable, carbon-free and low-carbon energy; notes that they can play a significant role in cost-efficient heat decarbonisation in urban and industrial areas;

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Amendment 111Christophe Grudler, Mauri Pekkarinen, Ivars Ijabs, Morten Petersen, Iskra Mihaylova, Klemen Grošelj, Nicola Danti, Claudia Gamon, Valérie Hayer

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5 e. Stresses the potential of digital tools for smart energy management, which can also reduce energy demand in a cost-efficient way; welcomes the ongoing revision of the secondary legislation on energy labelling and ecodesign of space and water heaters and coolers;

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Amendment 112Massimiliano Salini, Tom Berendsen, Ioan-Rareş Bogdan, Cristian-Silviu Buşoi, Christian Ehler, Gheorghe Falcă, Marian-Jean Marinescu, Ivan Štefanec, Antonio Tajani, Pernille Weiss, Salvatore De Meo, Maria da Graça Carvalho, András Gyürk, Edina Tóth, Jerzy Buzek, Maria Spyraki, Henna Virkkunen, Pascal Arimont, Markus Pieper, Sven Schulze, Pilar del Castillo Vera

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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 goals;

6. Recalls that the energy transition will require between EUR 520 and 575 billion in annual infrastructure investment; calls on the Commission to develop financial tools which are fully in line with the climate and integration goals; underlines that European programmes and financing instruments such as Horizon Europe and the European Clean Hydrogen Partnership, the Connecting Europe Facility on the basis of the TEN-E and TEN-T Regulations, cohesion policy, InvestEU, Recovery and Resilience Facility, Just Transition Fund and the ETS Innovation Fund have a key role in fostering a renewable and low-carbon hydrogen economy, biogas/biomethane development and carbon capture and storage and hydrogen-compatible infrastructure, while also providing appropriate investments in the use of natural gas where it provides emission reduction and serves as a transitional enabler; calls on the Commission to develop targets for energy infrastructure rollout and that system integration should make maximum use of existing gas infrastructure which can help deliver a cost-effective transition throughout many sectors including industry and mobility;

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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 goals;

will require between EUR 520 and 575 billion in annual electricity and gas infrastructure investment; recalls that the use of the existing gas infrastructure in combination with renewable and low-carbon gases will avoid unnecessary investments on the electricity side while simultaneously implementing the EU decarbonising targets; calls on the Commission to conduct a comparative analysis of costs and benefits and develop sustainable investment criteria which are fully in line with the climate and integration goals;

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6. Recalls that the energy transition will require also a massive expansion of additional renewable energy capacities for the direct electrification of currently fossil based applications and might require between EUR 520 and 575 billion in annual infrastructure investment; calls on the Commission to develop an inclusive, integrated and realistic scenario planning, considering notably energy efficiency and energy system integration, as well as sustainable investment criteria7a, which are fully in line with the climate goals;

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Amendment 115Margarita de la Pisa Carriónon behalf of the ECR GroupPietro Fiocchi, Elżbieta Kruk, Evžen Tošenovský




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 needs of the energy system integration and take into account the emission reduction potential of the investment in the end use and its contribution to energy transition;

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6. Recalls that the energy transition will require between EUR 520 and 575 billion in annual infrastructure investment, and that renewable energy sources such as wind and solar are intermittent and variable and therefore not suitable for a central a.c. grid, as they are neither controllable nor base-load capable and thus neither ensure security of supply nor grid stability;

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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 energy targets for 2030 and climate neutrality by 2050 at the latest in order to make sure that it does not lead to a lock-in of assets;

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6. Recalls that the energy transition will require a massive expansion of renewable energy capacity, potentially accounting for between EUR 520 and 575 billion in annual infrastructure investment; calls on the Commission to develop sustainable investment criteria and inclusive, integrated and realistic planning which are fully in line with the climate goals;

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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 goals thus excluding fossil fuel infrastructure to safeguard against a fossil fuel lock-in;

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Amendment 120Massimiliano Salini, Tom Berendsen, Ioan-Rareş Bogdan, Cristian-Silviu Buşoi, Christian Ehler, Gheorghe Falcă, Marian-Jean Marinescu, Ivan Štefanec, Antonio Tajani, Pernille Weiss, András Gyürk, Edina Tóth, Jerzy Buzek, Henna Virkkunen, Sara Skyttedal, Sven Schulze, Tomas Tobé



6 a. Regrets that the Commission’s draft taxonomy delegated act undermines the climate goals with regards to renewable energy sources, encourages the Commission to embrace a technological neutral approach based on life-cycle GHG emissions and not demand stricter rules from hydropower, biofuel and biogas, than other renewable energy sources; Furthermore, regrets that nuclear power is broken out and dealt with in a separate delegated act as this undermines the holistic energy system perspective, and limits Member States' possibilities for self-determination over the energy mix;

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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 economic viability;

7. Highlights the importance of assessing ex-ante and anticipating the need for energy efficiency measures, system integration or new energy production, transmission, distribution and conversion infrastructure in order to optimise its use in a climate-neutral economy and to ensure its mid- and long-term economic viability; demands that each infrastructure project should include an alternative scenario based on demand reduction and/or sector integration before being constructed;

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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 the energy system in a climate-neutral economy while ensuring its economic viability; underlines the importance of observing the principle of technology neutrality, as most of the technologies that will be needed in the foreseeable future still require investments in research and development;

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7. Highlights the importance of assessing ex-ante and anticipating the need for new energy production, interconnectivity, transmission, distribution, storage and conversion infrastructure in order to optimise its use in a climate-neutral economy and to ensure its cost efficiency while avoiding both lock-in effects and stranded assets;

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7. Highlights the importance of assessing ex-ante the need for energy efficiency, system integration or new energy production, transmission, distribution and conversion infrastructure in order to optimise its use in a climate-neutral economy and to ensure its mid- and long-term economic viability;

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Amendment 125Massimiliano Salini, Tom Berendsen, Ioan-Rareş Bogdan, Cristian-Silviu Buşoi, Christian Ehler, Gheorghe Falcă, Marian-Jean Marinescu, Ivan Štefanec, Antonio Tajani, Pernille Weiss, Salvatore De Meo, Maria da Graça Carvalho, András Gyürk, Edina Tóth, Jerzy Buzek, Maria Spyraki, Henna Virkkunen, Sven Schulze, Pilar del

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7. Highlights the importance of assessing ex-ante and anticipating the need for new energy production, transmission, distribution and conversion of infrastructure in order to optimise the use of existing energy infrastructure in a climate-neutral economy and to ensure its economic viability;

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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;

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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 economic viability;

assessing ex-ante and anticipating the need for new energy production, transmission, distribution, storage and conversion infrastructure in order to optimise its use in a climate-neutral economy and to ensure its economic viability;

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7 a. Believes that a common legal classification of the different types of renewable, decarbonised and low-carbon gases, including hydrogen, based on the full life cycle GHG emissions savings and sustainability criteria, is of utmost importance for market players, authorities and consumers; calls on the Commission to develop a comprehensive classification and certification framework of gaseous carriers;

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new EU Strategy on Offshore Renewable Energy; stresses that the rapid development of offshore energy islands is crucial to achieve our renewable energy capacity objective by 2030; to this end, calls for a comprehensive revision of the EU legislation on energy infrastructure and a targeted revision of the relevant State Aid guidelines;

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Amendment 130Claudia Gamon, Christophe Grudler, Morten Petersen, Klemen Grošelj



7 a. Welcomes the fact that district heating and cooling networks will be eligible for funding under the revised CEF Regulation, and calls for their inclusion as potential PCIs under the TEN-E Regulation;

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8. Calls on the Commission to use the revision of Regulation (EU) No 347/2013 on trans-European energy infrastructure as an opportunity to include energy system integration in the Regulation’s objectives and the 10-year network development planning;

8. Calls on the Commission to use the revision of Regulation (EU) 347/2013 on a trans-European energy infrastructure as an opportunity to include decarbonisation, digitalisation and energy system integration in the Regulation’s objectives and the 10-year network development planning; stresses that investments to

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digitalise existing infrastructure can significantly improve its management through the use of digital twins, algorithms or Artificial Intelligence; supports the widening of the scope of the Regulation to energy infrastructure such as storage, hydrogen and CO2 infrastructure; calls for an integrated, coordinated network plan that includes progressively all energy carriers and infrastructure;

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8. Calls on the Commission to use the revision of Regulation (EU) No 347/2013 on trans-European energy infrastructure as an opportunity to make it fully consistent with the goal of climate neutrality and enable the cost-effective integration of the energy system in the Regulation’s objectives and the 10-year network development planning; stresses that the energy system infrastructure should be integrated with the digital and transport systems; while taking into consideration the need for a methodological approach and governance model that minimises stranded costs;

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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;

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Amendment 134Massimiliano Salini, Tom Berendsen, Ioan-Rareş Bogdan, Cristian-Silviu Buşoi, Christian Ehler, Gheorghe Falcă, Marian-Jean Marinescu, Ivan Štefanec, Antonio Tajani, Pernille Weiss, Salvatore De Meo, Maria da Graça Carvalho, András Gyürk, Edina Tóth, Jerzy Buzek, Maria Spyraki, Henna Virkkunen, Sven Schulze, Pilar del Castillo Vera




8. Calls on the Commission to use the revision of Regulation (EU) No 347/2013 on trans-European energy infrastructure as an opportunity to include energy system integration in the Regulation’s objectives and the 10-year network development planning; calls for greater efforts to remove obstacles hindering the full integration of energy systems, which would otherwise encourage citizens and industry to fully embrace cleaner energy alternatives because there will be no Green Deal without a better integration of the energy system; Emphasises that it is necessary to achieve a cost-effective decarbonisation of the EU economies which will build a more flexible, more decentralised and digital energy system, in which consumers are empowered to make their energy choices;

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8. Calls on the Commission to use the revision of Regulation (EU) No 347/2013 on trans-European energy infrastructure as an opportunity to include energy system integration in the Regulation’s objectives and the 10-year network development planning, as well as a longer planning timeframe aligned to the climate neutrality target, as well as a longer planning timeframe aligned to the climate neutrality target;

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8 a. Highlights the importance of the energy storage technologies role in energy system integration; these technologies link different energy and economic sectors, increase the overall efficiency, optimise of energy system and contribute positively to the energy security;

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9. Calls for the mass deployment of renewable and decarbonised energy; encourages the Commission to propose more ambitious targets in order to increase the share of such energy in electricity generation, heavy industry, transport, construction, heating and cooling;

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9. Calls for the mass deployment of renewable energy as a priority; encourages the Commission to propose more ambitious targets in order to increase the share of such renewable energy in electricity generation, heavy industry, transport (including aviation and maritime transport), construction, heating and cooling; welcomes the Commission’s EU strategy on offshore renewable energy as an opportunity to ramp up renewable power generation, to increase the direct use of electricity and to support indirect electrification, for example, through hydrogen and synthetic fuels; calls on Member States to simplify permission procedures and to remove administrative barriers for the deployment of renewable energy;

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9. Calls for the mass deployment of renewable and low-carbon energy with a technology-neutral and cost-efficient approach; believes that a common European terminology for renewable and low-carbon gases is of utmost importance; encourages the Commission to implement a set of technology-neutral targets for renewable and low-carbon gases in order to increase the share of such energy in electricity generation, heavy industry, transport, construction, heating and cooling; calls for ensuring that such targets are based on thorough impact assessments to ensure sustainability for Member States;

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9. In the light of the required greenhouse gas reductions, energy saving needs, direct electrification and for enabling sustainable renewable fuels, calls for the massive deployment of renewable energy generation capacity, coupled with relevant infrastructure

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investments; encourages the Commission to propose more ambitious targets in order to achieve fully renewables based electricity generation and increase the share of renewable energy in heavy industry, transport, construction, heating and cooling;

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9. Calls for progressive deployment of renewable and decarbonised energy; encourages the Commission to propose realistic targets, based on a thorough impact assessment, in order to increase consequently the share of such energy in electricity generation, heavy industry, transport, construction, heating and cooling, while keeping an utmost attention to the needs of recovering economies;

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9. Calls for the mass deployment of renewable and decarbonised energy; encourages the Commission to propose more ambitious targets in order to increase

9. Calls for the mass deployment of renewable and decarbonised energy; encourages the Commission to assess the feasibility of advancing more ambitious

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the share of such energy in electricity generation, heavy industry, transport, construction, heating and cooling;

targets in order to increase the share of such energy in electricity generation, heavy industry, transport, construction, heating and cooling in the revision of Directive (EU) 2018/2001 on the promotion of renewable energy;

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9. Calls for the mass deployment of renewable energy; encourages the Commission to propose more ambitious targets for renewables in order to increase their share in all sectors;

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Amendment 144Massimiliano Salini, Tom Berendsen, Ioan-Rareş Bogdan, Cristian-Silviu Buşoi, Christian Ehler, Gheorghe Falcă, Marian-Jean Marinescu, Ivan Štefanec, Antonio Tajani, Pernille Weiss, Salvatore De Meo, Maria da Graça Carvalho, András Gyürk, Edina Tóth, Jerzy Buzek, Maria Spyraki, Pascal Arimont, Markus Pieper, Sara Skyttedal, Sven Schulze, Tomas Tobé, Pilar del Castillo Vera




9. Calls for the mass deployment of renewable, low carbon and decarbonised energy at competitive costs; encourages the Commission to propose more ambitious measures in order to increase the share of such energy in electricity generation, industry, transport, heating and cooling;

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9. Calls for the mass deployment of renewable energy; encourages the Commission to propose more ambitious targets in order to increase the share of such energy in electricity generation, heavy industry, transport, construction, heating and cooling;

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9 a. Stresses that buildings are responsible for about 40% of the EU’s total energy consumption, and for 36% of greenhouse gas emissions from energy; welcomes the adoption of the Renovation Wave for Europe strategy that will speed up the uptake of energy and resource efficiency measures and higher penetration of renewables in buildings across the EU; calls on the Commission and Member States to take into account the synergies between the energy sector and the building sector to achieve the climate neutrality;

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Amendment 147Christophe Grudler, Mauri Pekkarinen, Ivars Ijabs, Bart Groothuis, Morten Petersen, Iskra Mihaylova, Klemen Grošelj, Nicola Danti, Valérie Hayer



9 a. Recognises the progress achieved so far in integrating the EU's energy markets with those of the Energy Community Contracting Parties; highlights the importance of promoting cooperation on renewable energy; stresses the need to strengthen cross-border cooperation mechanisms in the upcoming revision of Directive (EU) 2018/2001 on the promotion of renewable energy, and the need to further remove barriers to the recognition and the trading of guarantees of origin;

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9a. Notes that the electrification of consumer sectors faces major hurdles with respect to cost efficiency, social acceptability, environmental compatibility, security of supply, technical feasibility and energy-system stability;

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9b. Notes that a successful and cost-efficient coupling of sectors requires a technology-open approach that fully takes into account the potential of different energy sources;

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10. Welcomes the adoption of the European Hydrogen Strategy; is convinced 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; recalls also the need to decarbonise existing hydrogen production;

10. Stresses that the production of hydrogen is very energy intensive, that additional considerable energy losses occur in the transformation processes and that there are high technical requirements for a currently non-existent hydrogen grid, which is why it should not be expected in the medium term that hydrogen will be profitable as an energy source from an economical point of view with the current technology available or that its production can be ensured in sufficient quantities;

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Amendment 151Massimiliano Salini, Tom Berendsen, Ioan-Rareş Bogdan, Cristian-Silviu Buşoi, Christian Ehler, Gheorghe Falcă, Marian-Jean Marinescu, Ivan Štefanec, Antonio Tajani, Pernille Weiss, Salvatore De Meo, Maria da Graça Carvalho, András Gyürk, Edina Tóth, Jerzy Buzek, Maria Spyraki, Henna Virkkunen, Hildegard Bentele, Sven Schulze, Pilar del Castillo Vera


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10. Welcomes the adoption of the European Hydrogen Strategy; is convinced that renewable and low carbon hydrogen, together with other renewable gases, can help reduce persistent emissions from hard to abate sectors, such as industrial processes,heavy transport and buildings and where direct electrification might be limited due to low cost-efficiency or technical, social and environmental reasons; recalls also the need to decarbonise existing hydrogen production and the role of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technologies; recalls the potential of blending hydrogen with natural gas as a contribution to the decarbonisation of the gas sector; underlines the potential of hydrogen for energy storage and transport and its contribution to the flexibility of the energy system;

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Amendment 152Nicolás González Casares, Alicia Homs Ginel, Carlos Zorrinho, Maria-Manuel Leitão-Marques, Jens Geier, Csaba Molnár, Adriana Maldonado López, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Niels Fuglsang




10. Welcomes the adoption of the European Hydrogen Strategy; is convinced that renewable hydrogen can help reduce persistent emissions from hard-to-abate sectors such as high temperature industry heavy transport, shipping and aviation which cannot be decarbonised through the use of zero-carbon electricity; recalls also the need to accelerate the decarbonisation of existing hydrogen production; stresses

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that hydrogen produced from renewable energy sources should be prioritised; stresses that renewable hydrogen is the best option which is sustainable in the long term and is in line with the objective of climate neutrality by 2050, as this implies the need to phase out fossil fuels from our economy;

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10. Welcomes the adoption of the European Hydrogen Strategy; is convinced that hydrogen produced from renewable and decarbonised electricity can help reduce persistent emissions from industrial processes and heavy transport which cannot be decarbonised through the direct use of electricity; notes that renewable hydrogen must be deployed along with increased renewable electricity capacity in the EU; stresses that fossil-based low-carbon hydrogen can play a transitional role in supporting the expansion of hydrogen applications and demand; recalls the need to decarbonise existing hydrogen production; supports the launch of Important Projects of Common European Interest (IPCEI) on hydrogen;

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10. Welcomes the adoption of the European Hydrogen Strategy; is convinced that renewable and low-carbon hydrogen can help reduce persistent emissions from industrial processes and heavy transport which cannot be decarbonised through the use of zero-carbon electricity; recalls also the need to decarbonise existing hydrogen production; recalls that blending of hydrogen in the natural gas infrastructure will enable decentralised renewable hydrogen production in local networks in a transitional phase; encourages the integration of hydrogen infrastructure planning in the TEN-E and TYNDP frameworks;

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10. Welcomes the adoption of the European Hydrogen Strategy; is convinced that clean and low-carbon hydrogen can help reduce persistent emissions from industrial processes and transport which cannot be decarbonised through the use of zero-carbon electricity; recalls also the need to support investments to scale up production and demand for all types of hydrogen in order to create an open and competitive EU market in Europe before clean hydrogen can be promoted as a truly commercially viable and competitive option;

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10. Notes the adoption of the European Hydrogen Strategy and that renewable 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;

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10. Welcomes the adoption of the European Hydrogen Strategy; is convinced that renewable and decarbonised hydrogen is a crucial component in reducing CO2 emissions in all sectors; recalls also the need to decarbonise existing hydrogen production;

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10. Welcomes the adoption of the European Hydrogen Strategy; is convinced that renewable hydrogen can help reduce persistent emissions from industrial processes and heavy transport when replacing fossil energy as feedstock or energy carrier in processes, that cannot be made more efficient, electrified or replaced; recalls also the need to decarbonise existing hydrogen production;

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10. Welcomes the adoption of the European Hydrogen Strategy; together with other renewable gases is convinced 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; recalls also the need to decarbonise existing hydrogen production;

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10. Welcomes the adoption of the European Hydrogen Strategy; is convinced that renewable and decarbonised hydrogen can help reduce persistent emissions from industrial processes and heavy transport which cannot be easily decarbonised through the direct use of zero-carbon electricity; recalls also the need to decarbonise existing hydrogen production;

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10. Welcomes the adoption of the European Hydrogen Strategy; is convinced that renewable hydrogen can help reduce persistent emissions from industrial processes and heavy transport which are harder to electrify through direct renewable generation; recalls also the need to decarbonise existing hydrogen production;

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10 a. Stresses that biogas, as a flexible and renewable enabler of decarbonization with a number of environmental and socio-economic benefits, should not be overshadowed by prioritisation of other RES technologies; emphasizes that potential of production of biogas from wastes from different sources (agricultural, forestry, industrial and municipal) and its contribution to circular economy and to distributed power and heat generation; emphasizes the advantages of biogas-sourced hydrogen which development should be further supported; points out to the industry’s estimations that by 2030 European biogas production could reach50Bcm/year, or around 10 per cent of the EU’s current natural gas consumption, and draws attention to the need of legislative changes in order to facilitate the biogas access to grids;

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10a. Recalls that hydrogen and other low- and zero-carbon gases are needed for the decarbonisation of the building sector and, in particular, of the building stock; notes that the electrification of the building sector, which is the focus of attention, cannot be made socially acceptable in many cases due to the very high renovation costs associated with it; recalls that the renovation rate needed for electrification is not being achieved in Europe;

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10 a. Calls on the Member States to abolish taxes and levies imposed on energy bills that disproportionately penalize renewable energy against other energy forms, and provide the wrong price signals to final energy consumers, especially related with transportation and heating needs;

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10 a. Notes that renewable, carbon-free or low-carbon hydrogen can be converted to other types of gases, such as methanol or ammonia, which can be used as fuel for heavy-duty transport;

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10 b. Calls on the Commission to elaborate a clear common terminology for hydrogen, based on the GHG emission reduction on the life cycle compared to the fossil equivalent, according to the approach set out by Article 25(2) of Directive (UE) 2018/2001 on the promotion of renewable energy;

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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 and for renewables;

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11. Calls on the Commission to extend the obligation laid down in Directive

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2018/2001 for Member States to issue guarantees of origin for low- and zero-carbon gases and for renewables;

(EU)2018/2001 for Member States to issue guarantees of origin that ensure the traceability of low- and zero-carbon gases and renewables based on a science-based life-cycle analysis; considers that all sustainable and cost-effective biofuels will be needed and believes that it would be environmentally and economically counterproductive to revise the renewable directive's sustainability criteria for forest biofuels in the way indicated in the Commissions energy system integration strategy; believes that sustainable forest management can contribute to climate adaptation by replacing fossil raw materials and through a long-term increased sequestration of carbon in forests;

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11. Calls on the Commission to propose a scheme for the certification of renewable hydrogen building on the existing framework in Directive (EU) 2018/2001; underlines the need to develop a robust methodology and establish criteria to ensure additionality of the renewable energy production capacity for renewable hydrogen production, while duly assessing the latter impact on the EU energy system and their contribution to the EU objective to increase the deployment of renewables, facilitate their market integration and optimise the system;

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Amendment 170Christophe Grudler, Mauri Pekkarinen, Ivars Ijabs, Bart Groothuis, Morten Petersen, Iskra Mihaylova, Klemen Grošelj, Valérie Hayer




11. Calls on the Commission to propose a common certification system for gases in Directive (EU) 2018/2001 on the promotion of renewable energy, starting with the obligation for Member States to issue guarantees of origin for renewable, carbon-free and low-carbon gases; encourages Member States to reduce the administrative burden related to certification of energy;

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11. Calls on the Commission to explore the options of extension of the obligation laid down in Directive (EU) 2018/2001 for Member States to issue guarantees of origin for low- and zero-carbon gases and for renewables; stresses that the potential system should be coherent and apply equally to imported gases;

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11. Calls on the Commission to consider the revision of the obligation laid down in Directive (EU) 2018/2001 for Member States to issue guarantees of origin for low-carbon and bio-gases, including associated GHG and sustainability criteria;

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11. Calls on the Commission to set a certification system and to extend the obligation laid down in Directive (EU) 2018/2001 for Member States to issue guarantees of origin for renewable gases and for renewables;

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11. Calls on the Commission to extend 11. Calls on the Commission to extend

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the obligation laid down in Directive (EU) 2018/2001 for Member States to issue guarantees of origin for low- and zero-carbon gases and for renewables;

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;

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12. Stresses the need to accelerate research and development on technologies for CO2 capture, storage and reuse;

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12. Emphasises that technologies for CO2-capture, storage and reuse are still in an experimental stage; notes that current technologies are geared towards using offshore storage points like emptied gas shelves, which means that landlocked countries are at a disadvantage given that there is no CO2-transport infrastructure in place yet; points out that while EU has dedicated funding in recent years to CCS demonstrators and prototypes, a Court of Auditors report in late 2018 concluded that a number of projects had failed to

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achieve the goals set by the Commission; regrets that the Commission did not address this problem with CCS-prototypes in its Communication sufficiently and calls on the Commission demonstrate how it plans to achieve better results which can be approved by the Court of Auditors; Stresses the need to accelerate research and development on these technologies; points out the need to keep the prudence regarding assessing the speed of maturing of these technologies and basing legislative initiatives in these forecasts;

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12. Stresses the need to accelerate research and development on technologies for CO2 capture, storage and reuse in order to implement a cost-efficient energy transition; calls on the Commission to overcome regulatory barriers for the up-taking of these technologies; notes that gas infrastructures can act as a conduit for Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) and Carbon Capture and Utilisation (CCU) applications; call on the Commission to establish an annual European CCUS Forum at the latest in 2021 to further study options aimed at fostering CCS/CCUS projects in Europe; acknowledges refineries as potential energy hubs within industrial clusters, considering that refineries are often integrated with (petro) chemicals plants and that they are already energy hubs and materials hubs, and considering that they produce and store energy with the

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potential to expand this role substantially;

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12. Stresses the need to accelerate research and development on technologies for CO2 capture, storage and reuse; underlines the importance of guaranteeing safe storage for CO2 and incentivising the reuse of CO2, in line with the idea of circularity; notes that the economic viability of these technologies will largely depend on the price of CO2 quotas under the Emissions Trading Scheme;

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12. Stresses the need to accelerate research, development and full exploitation of technologies for CO2 capture, storage and reuse; emphasizes that the EU needs a technological revolution making large-scale carbon capture (CCS) storage solutions profitable in order to

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combine economic growth with reduced greenhouse gas emissions;

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12. Stresses the need to assess the support and development on technologies for CO2 capture, storage and reuse, taking into account technical and environmental uncertainties that should be solved;

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12. Stresses that research and development on technologies for CO2 capture, storage and reuse is not constructive for environmental and economical reasons;

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12. Stresses the need to accelerate research and development of energy savings, renewable energy generation, storage and grid-balancing technologies;

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12. Stresses the need to evaluate the contribution of technologies for CO2

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13. Calls on the Commission to propose ambitious targets for the decarbonisation of road, maritime, rail and air transport; 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;

13. Calls on the Commission to propose ambitious targets for the decarbonisation of road, maritime, rail and air transport; calls on the Commission to build on an open technology approach to decarbonisation of transport, taking into account not only the potential of electrification but also the potential of gas mobility, electricity-based fuels and in particular hydrogen; recalls, in this context, that the deployment of alternative propulsion and fuels requires an

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appropriate refuelling and charging infrastructure and regulatory framework; 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;

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13. Calls on the Commission to propose ambitious targets for the decarbonisation of road, maritime, rail and air transport; welcomes the Commission’s announcement of the deployment of one million charging points for electric vehicles in the revision of Directive 2014/94/EU on deployment of alternative refuelling infrastructure; stresses the need to adapt the electrification networks for Europe’s vehicle fleet; underlines the potential for internal cooperation on the decarbonisation of transport across borders; highlights in this respect the critical role of the Transport Community to create synergies with neighbouring countries and accelerate the transfer of EU standards on transport emissions;

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13. Calls on the Commission to propose realistic targets for the decarbonisation of road, maritime, rail and air transport by providing concrete and differentiated development plans for the short, medium and long terms; 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; reminds the important decarbonisation role of renewable and low-carbon gases, such as hydrogen, LNG, bio LNG, synthetic LNG and CNG, in heavy-duty road transport, as well as maritime and aviation;

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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;

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13. Calls on the Commission to propose ambitious targets for the decarbonisation of road, maritime, rail and air transport in a technology-neutral way; welcomes the Commission’s announcement of the deployment of one million charging points for electric vehicles; stresses the need to adapt the infrastructure for alternative fuels for Europe’s vehicle fleet as well as to support other readily deployable solutions; highlights that direct electrification is very important but cannot stand alone in order to achieve a fast, affordable and just energy transition;

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13. Calls on the Commission to propose ambitious targets for the decarbonisation of road, maritime, rail and air transport; welcomes the Commission’s announcement of the deployment of one

13. Calls on the Commission to propose ambitious strategies for zero emission mobility in road, maritime, rail and air transport; welcomes the Commission plans for boosting the

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million charging points for electric vehicles; stresses the need to adapt the electrification networks for Europe’s vehicle fleet;

deployment of millions of charging points for electric vehicles; stresses the need to adapt the electrification networks for Europe’s vehicle fleet to enable smart charging, vehicle to grid services and demand side measures by citizen; calls on the Commission to require car manufacturers to enable vehicle to grid charging;

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13. Is convinced that battery-powered electromobility is already very harmful to the environment at the production stage of the batteries alone, which makes electricity supply more expensive and represents an enormous consumption of natural resources; stresses that batteries become toxic waste at the end of their useful life; maintains, therefore, that electromobility does not contribute to environmentally-friendly road, maritime, rail and air transport;

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13. Calls on the Commission to propose ambitious targets for the decarbonisation of road, maritime, rail and

13. Calls on the Commission to propose ambitious targets for zero-emission mobility in road, maritime, rail

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air transport; 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;

and air transport; welcomes the Commission’s announcement of the deployment of one million charging points for electric vehicles; stresses the need to adapt the networks for a fully electrified vehicle fleet in Europe;

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13. Calls on the Commission to propose a realistic target for the decarbonisation of road, maritime, rail and air transport; takes note of 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;

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13 a. Reiterates that the European Union is a Union united in diversity; underlines that the various Member States have very different economical sectors; stresses that in all upcoming legislation it

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cannot be the case that one or several member states are hit disproportionally hard because their respective economy relies for a vast part upon a certain sector; underlines that it is, in the end, a Member States responsibility with their own economic sovereignty and not a sector responsibility to commit to the 2030 and 2050 targets;

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13 a. Stresses that there are new sectors that are increasing their energy consumption, such as the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) sector, which accounts for between 5 and 9% of global electricity consumption; supports the Commission in looking into the synergies between the district heating and cooling and the data centre sectors; welcomes the commitment included in the EU Digital Strategy to make data centres climate-neutral by 2030;

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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;

14. Underlines the role of demand side management, storage and smart charging in maintaining the balance of electricity grids and managing demand and production peaks in an increasingly decentralised and renewable based system; recalls that Member States remain free to determine their energy mix, while all citizen enjoy the rights to produce, consume and store their own energy, the diversity of which is fundamental to ensuring participation and security of supply;

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14. Notes that maintaining the balance of electricity grids and managing demand and production peaks will be more complex with an increasingly decentralised renewable generation mix; also notes that citizen activation in the energy system can be crucial to this purpose; recalls that Member States shall ensure that all citizens have the right to produce, consume and store their own energy individually or as a community;

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14. Notes that maintaining the balance of electricity grids and managing demand and production peaks with an increasingly decentralised and renewable generation mix increasingly endangers people's safety and health as well as economic prosperity; recalls that Member States remain free to determine their energy mix, the diversity of which is fundamental to ensuring security of supply;

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14. Notes that maintaining the balance of electricity grids and managing demand and production peaks will be more complex, 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;

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14. Notes that maintaining the balance of electricity grids and managing demand and production peaks will be more

14. Notes that maintaining the balance of electricity grids and managing demand and production peaks will be more

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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;

complex with an increasingly decentralised and renewable generation mix; highlights that moving towards decentralised renewable energy production has many benefits, including the utilisation of local energy sources, increased local security of energy supply, fostering community development and cohesion by providing income sources and creating jobs locally; recalls that Member States remain free to determine their energy mix, the diversity of which is fundamental to ensuring security of supply;

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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; underlines that nuclear energy could be a part of that mix; stresses that it is essential to keep the knowledge on how to build, safeguard and operate nuclear plants keeps available within the European Union;

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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 and underlines the importance of the deployment of smart grids to cope with this transformation; the diversity of which is fundamental to ensuring security of supply;

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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 and underlines the importance of the deployment of smart grids to cope with this transformation; recalls that Member States remain free to determine their energy mix, the diversity of which is fundamental to ensuring security of supply;

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14 a. Stresses that interconnections are more important than ever to ensure the transport of renewable energy to the areas where demand will be the strongest and balance the energy system as a whole; stresses the need to implement the obligation to use a minimum of 70% of the existing interconnection capacity set out by Article16(8) of Regulation (EU) 2019/943 on the internal electricity market;

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14 a. Notes that power grid infrastructure should be further enhanced through digitalisation and automatisation to provide flexibility to the system and take advantage of synergies with other energy vectors; emphasises that a smart, more integrated system will allow growing penetration of decentralised and flexible renewable energy production, as well as a highly interconnected electricity system;

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14 a. Acknowledges that flexible cogeneration provides a forward-looking integrated energy storage solution for flexibility of electricity grids and efficiency of heat supply thanks to heat storage decoupling electricity production from heat consumption; calls on the Member States to further explore sector integration, smart energy systems and use of excess heat;

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14 b. Stresses the importance of the digitalisation as a key element to unleash the full potential of a more efficient and integrated energy system; more power should be given to customers, and energy demand should be made more flexible; highlights that digitalisation brings challenges, in particular as regards privacy and cybersecurity of the energy sector; calls on the Commission to develop cyber security tools to avoid attacks on energy networks; reminds that the use of specific technologies such as ICT, modern sensors, AI, internet of things (IoT), big data, space-based systems and services can optimise energy consumption and lead to decarbonisation of the energy systems; welcomes the Commission’s announcement of a "Digitalisation of Energy Action plan" to develop a competitive market for digital energy services that ensures data privacy and sovereignty and supports investment

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in digital energy infrastructure;

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Amendment 209Claudia Gamon, Bart Groothuis, Christophe Grudler



14 b. Reiterates that the security of energy supply must be guaranteed at all times and is crucial for both the economy and the society, is convinced in this regard that storage of energy will be a key enabler in the transition to a decarbonised energy system and must therefore be considered as a cornerstone of energy system integration;

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Amendment 210Christophe Grudler, Mauri Pekkarinen, Ivars Ijabs, Morten Petersen, Iskra Mihaylova, Klemen Grošelj, Martina Dlabajová, Valérie Hayer



14 b. Regrets that a number of Member States have not yet reached their 10% electric interconnection target by 2020; calls on the Commission to better support national investments through the list of Projects of Common Interest; encourages the Commission to relaunch the work of the expert group on interconnection targets;

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Amendment 211Massimiliano Salini, Tom Berendsen, Ioan-Rareş Bogdan, Cristian-Silviu Buşoi, Christian Ehler, Gheorghe Falcă, Marian-Jean Marinescu, Ivan Štefanec, Antonio Tajani, Pernille Weiss, Salvatore De Meo, Maria da Graça Carvalho, András Gyürk, Edina Tóth, Maria Spyraki, Henna Virkkunen, Sven Schulze, Pilar del Castillo Vera



15. Highlights the need to reduce regulatory barriers, improve access to capital and further support energy storage projects along transmission and distribution networks and at consumption sites;

15. Highlights the need to reduce regulatory barriers, improve access to capital and further support all forms of energy storage projects that can offer services along with transmission and distribution networks and at consumption sites; recalls the importance to ensure full interoperability of different transport and storage systems, including those with cross-border relevance and connected to third countries; urges the Commission to revise the Energy Taxation Directive to reduce the costs of taxes and levies on energy transformation and energy storage,while avoiding undue market distortions at the expense of other energy sources;

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15. Highlights the need to reduce regulatory barriers, improve access to capital for retrofitting, repurposing, or developing new infrastructures and further support underground gas and hydrogen storage projects along transmission and distribution networks and at consumption sites to manage system-balancing needs

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on short-term and seasonal timescales, in a cost-efficient way;

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15. Highlights the need to reduce regulatory barriers and existing administrative burden, improve access to capital and further support energy storage projects, while taking into account the range of costs in euro / MWh for the construction and operation of the relevant storage technology, along transmission and distribution networks and at consumption sites;

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15. Reiterates that the European energy storage capacity is an essential source of flexibility; highlights the need to reduce regulatory barriers to the installation of storage equipment; calls on the Commission to assess how to eliminate the potential double taxation on storage projects in its forthcoming revision of Directive 2003/96/EC on Energy Taxation;

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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;

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15. Highlights the need to reduce regulatory barriers, improve access to capital and further support energy storage projects along transmission and distribution networks, including at domestic level and consumption sites;

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15. Highlights the need to reduce regulatory barriers, improve access to capital, provide long term price signal and further support energy storage projects;

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15 a. Calls on Member States to improve access to capital for all energy storage projects, with an emphasis on the modernisation of existing infrastructure; calls on the Commission to further take into consideration the need for deployment of storage infrastructure in the next list of Project of Common Interest and in the revision of the Guidelines on State aid for environmental protection and energy;

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15 a. Underlines the role of flexibility options in the shift from a supply-driven to a demand-driven energy system,

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enabling active consumers for demand response via digital solutions;

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15 b. Stresses the need to maintain a technology-neutral approach on sustainable storage; nevertheless, notes with concern the large dependence of the EU on imports of lithium-ion batteries; welcomes therefore the approach identified in the strategic action plan for batteries, notably the diversification of sources of raw materials, the full use of the EU trade policy to ensure sustainable and secure supply, and the development of incentives for circularity, as well as the establishment of the European Battery Alliance;

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16. Recalls the role that green hydrogen can play in balancing grids by using any surplus renewable electricity production;

16. Recalls the role that green hydrogen can play to integrate additional renewable generation capacity and to provide flexibility in balancing grids by using any

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surplus renewable electricity production; highlights that optimising and prioritising the development of the power grid are no-regret options and are critical to produce renewable hydrogen;

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16. Recalls the additional role that renewable hydrogen could play in balancing grids by using any surplus renewable electricity production beyond the main applications of decarbonize the harder to abate sectors;

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Amendment 223Massimiliano Salini, Tom Berendsen, Ioan-Rareş Bogdan, Cristian-Silviu Buşoi, Christian Ehler, Gheorghe Falcă, Marian-Jean Marinescu, Ivan Štefanec, Antonio Tajani, Pernille Weiss, Salvatore De Meo, Maria da Graça Carvalho, András Gyürk, Edina Tóth, Jerzy Buzek, Maria Spyraki, Henna Virkkunen, Hildegard Bentele, Sven Schulze, Pilar del Castillo Vera, Andrius Kubilius




16. Recalls the role that renewable and low carbon hydrogen can play in balancing grids by using any electricity; notes the need to develop the hydrogen-storing technologies and capacities and the role that renewable hydrogen and electrolysers can play in providing more flexibility to the grids and integrating the increasing share of renewable electricity production;

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16. Recalls the additional role that green renewable hydrogen could play in balancing grids by using any surplus renewable electricity production beyond the main applications of decarbonizing the harder to abate sectors;

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Amendment 225Claudia Gamon, Bart Groothuis, Morten Petersen




16. Recalls that renewable hydrogen produced by electrolysis using water and renewable energy sources such as hydropower will play a key role not just to balancing grids but by storing large quantities of energy for a long time and enabling its long-haul transport; therefore acknowledges its contribution to securing energy supply;

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16. Recalls the role that different storage technologies, power to heat technologies and renewable hydrogen can play in balancing the energy system by using any surplus renewable electricity production;

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16. Recalls the role that energy storage technologies, power to heat technologies and renewable hydrogen can play in balancing the energy system by using any surplus renewable electricity production;

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16. Recalls the role that hydrogen can play in balancing grids by using any surplus renewable electricity production through the use of existing gas infrastructure (transmission and storage);

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Amendment 229Christophe Grudler, Mauri Pekkarinen, Ivars Ijabs, Bart Groothuis, Iskra Mihaylova, Klemen Grošelj, Martina Dlabajová, Nicola Danti, Valérie Hayer




16. Reiterates the role that Power-to-X technologies can play in balancing grids, in particular by storing surplus renewable electricity production;

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16. Recalls that the conversion of electricity to hydrogen (H2) is not economical and leads to high losses;

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16. Recalls the role that renewable hydrogen can play in balancing grids by using any surplus renewable electricity production;

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16 a. Stresses that there are various cost-efficient economic models for production, transport and consumption of hydrogen; calls on the Commission to consider this diversity of needs in its forthcoming legislative proposals; calls on the Commission to guarantee a fair and efficient competition between hydrogen that is imported from international partners and hydrogen that is produced in the EU;

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Amendment 233Massimiliano Salini, Tom Berendsen, Ioan-Rareş Bogdan, Cristian-Silviu Buşoi, Christian Ehler, Gheorghe Falcă, Marian-Jean Marinescu, Ivan Štefanec, Antonio Tajani, Pernille Weiss, Salvatore De Meo, Maria da Graça Carvalho, András Gyürk, Edina Tóth, Jerzy Buzek, Henna Virkkunen, Sven Schulze, Pilar del Castillo Vera



16 a. Acknowledges that power-to gas and power-to-heat technologies can play a key role in terms of large scale energy storage, to meet seasonal demand and to balance an electricity system because they are easy to integrate in existing infrastructure, help balance the electricity grid and can be cost-effectively transported across long-distances;

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16 a. Stresses the role that electric mobility plays as a form of smart integration of the power and transport sectors; stresses that the electrification of the transport sector increases the Union´s energy independency and unlocks flexibility benefits for the grids to better integrate renewable energy sources;

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16 a. Stresses the role that electric mobility plays as a form of smart integration of the power and transport sectors; stresses that the electrification of the transport sector increases European energy independency and unlock flexibility benefits for the grids to better integrate renewable energy sources;

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16a. Emphasises the storage capacity of the gas infrastructure (grids as well as storage facilities), which, in combination with the production of environmentally-friendly hydrogen, can contribute considerably to the stabilisation of energy systems;

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17. Recalls the importance of interconnectors and cooperation between network operators; welcomes the establishment of regional coordination centres under Regulation (EU) 2019/943;

17. Recalls the importance of interconnectors and cooperation between network operators; welcomes the Commission’s announcement that the energy system integration strategy will seek greater synergies between the energy and transport infrastructure, as well as the need to achieve the 15% electricity interconnection target for 2030; calls on the Commission to analyse the progress towards this electricity interconnection target and to consider appropriate action, including in the context of the revision of the TEN-E Regulation; welcomes the establishment of regional coordination centres under Regulation (EU) 2019/943;

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Amendment 238Massimiliano Salini, Tom Berendsen, Ioan-Rareş Bogdan, Cristian-Silviu Buşoi, Christian Ehler, Gheorghe Falcă, Marian-Jean Marinescu, Ivan Štefanec, Antonio

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Tajani, Pernille Weiss, Salvatore De Meo, Maria da Graça Carvalho, András Gyürk, Edina Tóth, Jerzy Buzek, Henna Virkkunen, Sven Schulze, Pilar del Castillo Vera




17. Recalls the importance of interconnectors and cooperation between network operators; welcomes the establishment of regional coordination centres under Regulation (EU) 2019/943; believes that an integrated and cross-sectoral approach should be applied by TSOs for the future planning of the networks, as well as consistency with climate and energy targets and the National Energy and Climate Plans;

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Amendment 239Christophe Grudler, Mauri Pekkarinen, Ivars Ijabs, Morten Petersen, Iskra Mihaylova, Klemen Grošelj, Martina Dlabajová, Nicola Danti, Valérie Hayer




17. Recalls the importance of interconnectors and cooperation between network operators; welcomes the establishment of regional coordination centres under Regulation (EU) 2019/943 on the internal market for electricity;

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17. Recalls the importance of interconnectors and cooperation between network operators; welcomes the establishment of regional coordination centres for the electricity network under Regulation (EU) 2019/943;

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17. Recalls the importance of interconnectors and cooperation between network operators; notes the establishment of regional coordination centres under Regulation (EU) 2019/943;

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17. Recalls the importance of maximising electricity trade at interconnectors and cooperation between network operators; welcomes the establishment of regional coordination centres under Regulation (EU) 2019/943 and calls on the latter to duly consider energy system integration in their activities;

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18. Calls on the Commission to explore ways of further encouraging the development of a European market for demand-side flexibility;

18. Calls on the Commission and the Members States to explore ways of further encouraging, through effective incentives, the development of a European market for demand-side flexibility, potentials for energy storage and balancing electricity grid; welcomes flexible integrated energy systems that aim to optimize the district heating/cooling sector contributing to the balancing of the electricity grid, cost-effective use of renewable energy sources and waste heat integration at local/regional level;

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18. Recalls that demand-side measures and improved demand side management can provide for better flexibility;

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18. Highlights the advantages of a ‘multi-directional’ system in which consumers play an active role in energy supply; calls on the Commission to explore ways of further encouraging the development of a European market for demand-side flexibility and to explore the opportunities of common standards necessary to cost effectively secure that the end-use technology is enabled for end-use flexibility;

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18. Calls on the Commission to explore ways of further encouraging the development of a European market for demand-side flexibility, for example through a quantification of relevant potentials and an evaluation of the activation of the identified demand response potential on energy system costs; calls on Member States to urgently transpose the rules on demand response and aggregation enshrined in the electricity market legislation 7a;_________________7a Directive (EU) 2019/944 of the

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European Parliament and of the Council of 5 June 2019 on common rules for the internal market for electricity; Regulation (EU) 2019/943 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 June 2019 on the internal market for electricity.

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18. Calls on the Commission to explore ways of further encouraging the development of a European market for demand-side flexibility; reiterates that citizens should always have the possibility of participating in and benefitting from all forms of demand-side flexibility, and should be encouraged to do so, especially in those sectors, like mobility, where active participation is crucial;

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Amendment 248Christophe Grudler, Mauri Pekkarinen, Ivars Ijabs, Morten Petersen, Iskra Mihaylova, Klemen Grošelj, Nicola Danti, Valérie Hayer




18. Calls on the Commission to explore ways to further encourage the development of a European market for demand-side flexibility; calls for the swift implementation of Directive (EU) 2019/944 on the internal market for electricity and its provisions on demand-

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18. Calls on the Commission to explore ways of further encouraging the development of a European market for demand-side flexibility especially through hybrid heating solutions;

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Amendment 250Patrizia Toia, Nicolás González Casares



18 a. Recalls the importance to address cybersecurity risks in the energy sector to ensure the resilience of the electricity system; points out that the increasing number of connected products, such as heat pumps, electric vehicles and smart meters, may increase the risk of cybersecurity attacks to the electricity system; urges the Commission to swiftly address these risks by setting a high level of cybersecurity protections for connected products in the context of the electricity network code on cybersecurity;

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18 a. Calls on the Commission to further explore the potential of technologies to convert energies such as Power-to-Gas; calls on the Commission to establish a framework enabling network operators to invest and operate Power-to-Gas assets according to the principles of third party access;

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18 a. Underlines the storage and flexibility potential of the deployment of 'vehicle-to-grid' technologies and notes that it will require the interoperability of energy systems and electric vehicles;

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Amendment 253Massimiliano Salini, Tom Berendsen, Ioan-Rareş Bogdan, Cristian-Silviu Buşoi, Christian Ehler, Gheorghe Falcă, Marian-Jean Marinescu, Ivan Štefanec, Antonio Tajani, Pernille Weiss, Salvatore De Meo, Maria da Graça Carvalho, András Gyürk, Edina Tóth, Jerzy Buzek, Maria Spyraki, Henna Virkkunen, Pascal Arimont, Sven Schulze, Pilar del Castillo Vera


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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 internal market for digital energy technologies;

19. Stresses that a more renewable, decentralised and better integrated energy system requires better forecasting of energy demand and matching with the supply and storage from different energy carriers; highlights, in this regard, the crucial role of digitalisation for the processing of statistical and meteorological data; calls on the Commission and the Member States to develop an internal market for digital energy technologies; welcomes the intention of the Commission to adopt an action plan for the digitalisation of energy to foster the EU technological leadership and enable a more integrated energy system with intelligent solutions in specific sectors (smart grids, more efficient and safe transport, energy savings in buildings), a more active role of consumers and improved funding for the 2021-2027 period;

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19. Stresses that a more decentralised and better integrated energy system requires better forecasting of energy demand and supply; highlights, in this regard, the crucial role of demand response, smart charging, smart grids and statistical and meteorological data; calls on the Commission and the Member States to develop an internal market for digital energy technologies; encourages Member

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States to adopt the Smart Readiness Indicator developed as part of the building legislation8a in order to tap on the potential for demand-side flexibility at building level;_________________8a Commission delegated Regulation (EU) C(2020) 6930 of 14.10.2020 supplementing Directive (EU) 2010/31/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council by establishing an optional common European Union scheme for rating the smart readiness of buildings.

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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 internal market for digital energy technologies; stresses that this will require more common standards for data exchange; underlines the growing need to ensure data privacy and cybersecurity in an increasingly smart energy system;

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19. Recalls that a truly integrated energy system is in the first place decentralised, making the most of local renewable resources and connecting all relevant infrastructures; 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 internal market for digital energy technologies;

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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 prioritize cyber security, data protection; recalls the need to regulate the market for digital energy technologies;

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19 a. Reiterates the crucial role of the Agency for Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) in the energy system integration and the implementation of the EU energy legislation; calls on the Commission and Member States to make sure that the agency is provided with sufficient means to carry out its missions;

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Ensuring energy accessibility for all consumers

Energy system as a driver for social and environmental advancement and green job creation;

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Amendment 260Margarita de la Pisa Carriónon behalf of the ECR GroupPietro Fiocchi, Jessica Stegrud, Elżbieta Kruk, Evžen Tošenovský, Robert Roos, Rob Rooken




Ensuring energy accessibility and affordability for all consumers

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Ensuring energy system accessibility for all citizens

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Ensuring energy accessibility for all citizens

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19 a. Highlights the necessity of a skilled and qualified workforce to make energy system integration successful; is convinced that a strong Social Partnership and collective agreements make the energy sector more innovative and create high quality employment; stresses the importance to establish and promote Social Partnership in emerging

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subsectors of the energy sector;

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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;

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20. Recalls that the primary objective of Union action in the field of energy 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 price signals reflecting the real cost of energy and its contribution to the decarbonisation of the economy; welcomes the initiative to revise Directive 2003/96/EC;

20. Recalls that the primary objective of Union action in the field of energy 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 price signals reflecting the real cost of energy and its contribution to the decarbonisation of the economy; stresses the importance of guiding customers towards the most energy-efficient and cheapest decarbonisation option, on the basis of prices that properly reflect all the costs of the energy carrier used; welcomes the initiative to revise Directive2003/96/EC; calls on Member

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States to remove undue taxes and levies to ensure taxation is harmonised, to promote clean innovative technologies, and to ensure competitive energy costs in Europe; calls on Member States to work on phasing out all direct and indirect fossil fuel subsidies;

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20. Recalls that the primary objective of Union action in the field of energy 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 price signals reflecting the real cost of energy of the economy; notes the initiative to revise Directive 2003/96/EC and emphasizes the need to take into account socioeconomic and distributional factors that determine the energy tax rate in any country and that raising the cost of fuels and energy-intensive goods implies a larger percent loss of overall consumption for poorer households because those goods often comprise relatively large shares of low-income household budgets;

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20. Recalls that the primary objective of Union action in the field of energy is to “ensure the proper functioning of the market with regard for the need to preserve and improve the environment”9a; calls on the Commission to propose the necessary legislative changes to ensure an enabling framework and a level-playing field10a for active consumers and undistorted price signals reflecting the real cost of energy, including external costs, to determine their contribution to the energy transition; welcomes the initiative to revise Directive 2003/96/EC and transform it into an instrument aligning taxation policies to the energy and climate targets for 2030 and 2050;

_________________9a Article 194 TFEU: 1. In the context of the establishment and functioning of the internal market and with regard for the need to preserve and improve the environment, Union policy on energy shall aim, in a spirit of solidarity between Member States, to: (a) ensure the functioning of the energy market; (b) ensure security of energy supply in the Union; (c) promote energy efficiency and energy saving and the development of new and renewable forms of energy; and (d) promote the interconnection of energy networks.10a Directive (EU) 2019/944 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 June 2019 on common rules for the internal market for electricity; Regulation (EU) 2019/943 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 June 2019 on the internal market for electricity.

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Massimiliano Salini, Tom Berendsen, Ioan-Rareş Bogdan, Cristian-Silviu Buşoi, Christian Ehler, Gheorghe Falcă, Marian-Jean Marinescu, Ivan Štefanec, Antonio Tajani, Pernille Weiss, Salvatore De Meo, Maria da Graça Carvalho, András Gyürk, Edina Tóth, Jerzy Buzek, Maria Spyraki, Henna Virkkunen, Pascal Arimont, Sven Schulze, Pilar del Castillo Vera




20. Recalls that the primary objective of Union action in the field of energy is to ensure the proper functioning of the market; calls on the Commission to take the necessary measures to safeguard the well-functioning of energy markets and to ensure the full implementation of the acquis for the internal energy market, including the Clean Energy Package, equal rights for all households and businesses and help them contribute to the decarbonisation of the economy; welcomes the initiative to revise Directive 2003/96/EC;

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20. Recalls that the primary objective of Union action in the field of energy is to ensure the proper functioning of the market; calls on the Commission to propose the necessary legislative changes to align consumer rights and protections in gas and district heating to those in electricity for all consumers and ensure undistorted price signals reflecting the real cost of energy and its contribution to the decarbonisation of the economy; welcomes the initiative to revise Directive

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20. Recalls that the European Pillar of Social Rights states that everyone 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 shall be available especially for those in need; calls on the Commission and the Member States to tackle energy poverty and protect vulnerable households by establishing a right to energy and a ban on disconnection;

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20. Recalls that the primary objective of Union action in the field of energy 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 price signals reflecting the real cost of energy and its contribution to the decarbonisation of the economy;

20. Recalls that the one of the most important objective of Union action in the field of energy is to ensure the proper functioning of the market; calls on the Commission to propose the necessary legislative changes to ensure access opportunities for all consumers and undistorted price signals reflecting the real cost of energy and its contribution to the

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welcomes the initiative to revise Directive 2003/96/EC;

process of decarbonisation of the economy; welcomes the initiative to revise Directive 2003/96/EC;

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20. Recalls that the primary objective of Union action in the field of energy 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, while addressing energy poverty, and undistorted price signals reflecting the real cost of energy and its contribution to the decarbonisation of the economy; welcomes the initiative to revise Directive 2003/96/EC;

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20. Recalls that the primary objective of Union action in the field of energy 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 price signals reflecting the real cost of energy and its contribution to the decarbonisation of the economy; welcomes

20. Recalls that the primary objective of Union action in the field of energy 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 price signals reflecting the real cost of energy delivered to consumers and its contribution to the decarbonisation of

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the initiative to revise Directive 2003/96/EC;

the economy; welcomes the initiative to revise Directive 2003/96/EC;

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Amendment 274Christophe Grudler, Mauri Pekkarinen, Ivars Ijabs, Iskra Mihaylova, Klemen Grošelj, Valérie Hayer



20 a. Welcomes the initiative to revise Directive 2003/96/EC on Energy Taxation; calls on the Commission and Member States to integrate the climate objectives to this Directive; stresses the need to revise its scope and differentiate fossil gases and fuels from renewable, carbon-free or low-carbon gases and fuels to incentivise the development of decarbonised alternatives;

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20 a. Concurs with the Commission's analysis on persisting fossil fuel subsidies, an insufficient ETS price signal, non-energy related charges and the fact that external costs are not internalised and urges to remedy the known problems through effective regulatory measures;

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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 consumers;

21. Welcomes the entry into force of the Electricity market provisions that enable active consumers to fully participate to the market and reap the benefit of their activities; calls on the Commission to assess the remaining barriers to self-consumption, including for industrial consumers; calls for transparent information on the climate impact of energy choices as part of the planned consumer information campaign;

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21. Is convinced of the need to enable 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;

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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 consumers, and adopt measures to ensure a level-playing field among distributor system operators; calls on the Commission and on the Member States to empower and engage citizens through the appropriate incentives and technologies, especially smart grids;

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Amendment 279Nicolás González Casares, Alicia Homs Ginel, Carlos Zorrinho, Maria-Manuel Leitão-Marques, Jens Geier, Robert Hajšel, Csaba Molnár, Adriana Maldonado López, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Josianne Cutajar, Niels Fuglsang, Patrizia Toia




21. Is convinced of the need to encourage energy consumers to be more active; calls on the Commission to assess the remaining barriers to facilitate the development of renewable self-consumption and renewable energy communities especially in particular those in low-income or vulnerable households and for industrial consumers;

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21. Encourages incentive programs for energy consumers to become more proactive; calls on the Commission to assess the remaining barriers to self-consumption and to design a plan to make it more attractive for the end-users;

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21 a. Stresses that an integrated energy system shall ensure the accessibility of energy to all consumers, in particular those in low-income or vulnerable households;

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Amendment 282Nicolás González Casares, Alicia Homs Ginel, Carlos Zorrinho, Maria-Manuel Leitão-Marques, Jens Geier, Robert Hajšel, Csaba Molnár, Adriana Maldonado López, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Josianne Cutajar, Niels Fuglsang, Patrizia Toia



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21 b. Highlights the consumer empowerment potential in the integrated renewable energy systems to generate, consume, store, and sell energy; considers that it also provides opportunities for renewable energy communities for advancing energy efficiency at household level and helping fight energy poverty;

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22. Reiterates the potential of energy communities and micro grids to develop access to more sustainable energy, especially for remote areas, islands and the outermost regions;

22. Reiterates the potential of energy communities and micro grids to foster a more financially and environmentally sustainable access to energy; calls on the Commission to facilitate the effective creation and improvement of energy communities by providing European citizens and local institution with streamlined red tape, specific skills and monetary incentives;

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Amendment 284Margarita de la Pisa Carrión, Pietro Fiocchi, Jessica Stegrud, Robert Roos, Rob Rooken




22. Notes that COVID-19 has contributed to the intensification of energy poverty in the EU and as the crisis continues, the proportion of the energy purchase costs in households’ budgets

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will grow sharply stresses therefore that it is important to develop a common definition of energy poverty and monitor the energy poverty rate subsequently;

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22. Reiterates the potential of energy communities in a decentralized renewables based energy system and micro grids to develop access to sustainable energy, encourage participatory governance, tackle energy poverty, create local jobs and strengthen local communities;

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22. Highlights the potential of citizen energy communities and micro grids in an integrated energy system, where they can develop access to more sustainable, affordable and shared energy, especially for remote areas, islands and the outermost regions;

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22. Reiterates the potential of energy communities and micro grids to develop access to sustainable energy everywhere in Europe and calls on Member States to create and enabling framework fostering their participation;

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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;

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22 a. Calls on the Commission propose rules allowing citizens energy communities to further participate in energy system integration, for example through the connection to heat networks, to electric-mobility charging or to storage or demand-response devices alongside renewable-energy production;

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22 a. Notes that the risk of rising energy poverty is a real threat; stresses therefore that it is important to develop a common definition of energy poverty and monitor the energy poverty rate subsequently;

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22 b. Reiterates the promise of the “Green New Deal” that no one is left behind; notes in this regard that it is of the utmost importance to transform the skills of employees in sectors that face the risk of disappearing through the green transition; urges the Commission to come

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forward with more and adequate plans to guide employees from disappearing to emerging sectors;

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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;

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22 b. Points to the potential of solar energy at distribution level to be further exploited by citizen, industries and the public sector; calls on the Commission to launch a European solar rooftop campaign to foster investments;

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22 c. Underlines the need to effectively address equality and inclusion as part of the energy sector integration, especially concerning participation and equal pay; calls for launching a European sector initiative for women to identify and address barriers and to create networks and role models;

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Ensuring European leadership of clean energy technologies

Ensuring European leadership of renewable energy technologies

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23. Recalls that one of the objectives of the Energy Union is to reduce our import dependency; considers that the creation of

23. Recalls that one of the objectives of the Energy Union is to ensure energy security; believes that the import of

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synergies can help achieve this objective; renewable and low-carbon gases via pipelines or European import terminals will be needed to cater to European demand in addition to domestic production; considers that the creation of synergies can help achieve this objective;

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Amendment 297Christophe Grudler, Mauri Pekkarinen, Ivars Ijabs, Iskra Mihaylova, Klemen Grošelj, Nicola Danti, Valérie Hayer



23. Recalls that one of the objectives of the Energy Union is to reduce our import dependency; considers that the creation of synergies can help achieve this objective;

23. Recalls that one of the objectives of the Energy Union is to reduce import dependency; calls for the EU to learn from the current economic crisis and work towards more autonomy in strategic value chains; considers that the creation of synergies can help achieve this objective;

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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;

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23. Recalls that one of the objectives of the Energy Union is to reduce our import dependency; considers that energy efficiency and the switch to sustainable, domestic renewable resources can help achieve this objective;

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23. Recalls that one of the objectives of the Energy Union is to reduce our import dependency and to ensure security of supply; considers that the creation of synergies can help achieve this objective;

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23 a. Points to the decline in the cost of renewable energy technologies, the potential of the digitalisation and emerging technologies in batteries, heat pumps, electric vehicles or hydrogen that offer the opportunity to accelerate the decarbonization of our economy; stresses the need to take advantage of decentralized renewable energies, and to integrate different energy carriers in an efficient way while avoiding pollution and biodiversity loss;

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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 funds; recalls the Union’s global leadership in satellite emission measurement technologies;

24. Stresses the importance of increasing the competitiveness of European technologies as well as the need to ensure energy democracy for its citizen; calls on the Commission to support research and innovation into processes and applications for the energy transition through the various structural, recovery and sectoral funds; recalls the Union’s global leadership in electrolyser technology, building integrated solar photovoltaics and other renewable energy technologies, as well as in satellite emission measurement technologies;

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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 funds following a technology neutral approach; recalls the Union’s global leadership in satellite emission measurement technologies; stresses that technologies where Europe has global leadership and domestic based value chains should be looked at specifically;

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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 overcome regulatory barriers and enable gas infrastructure operators to play an active role in the decarbonisation process; calls on the Commission to support research and innovation through the various structural and sectoral funds; recalls the Union’s global leadership in satellite emission measurement technologies;

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24. Stresses the importance of a 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 capabilities in satellite emission measurement technologies;

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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 funds; recalls the Union’s global leadership in satellite emission measurement technologies, and in particular the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service; recalls the expertise of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts in predicting

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weather and therefore anticipating fluctuations in the energy demand;

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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 funds; recalls the Union’s global leadership in satellite emission measurement technologies; welcomes the creation of the Just Transition Mechanism and the Just Transition Fund that will support territories, and decrease regional inequalities in Member States facing the biggest transition challenges;

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24 a. Highlights ground-breaking process innovations and technologies that need to be further enhanced in a circular economy perspective and an effective sector integration strategy:

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- high efficiency and renewable hydrogen based steel production, combining steel recycling and permanent iron mould production,- district heating through underground transport excess heat,- smart charging and modal shift in the transport sector,- sustainable replacement of petrochemical and agrochemical products and their related processes- new generation of battery production and recycling,- liquid immersion technologies for data centres substantially reducing energy needs and excess heat;

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24 a. Notes with concern that the conclusions of the 2020 Report on the State of the Energy Union highlight a decrease in research and innovation investments in clean energy technologies; reiterates the crucial role of the EU support for research and innovation, and particularly disruptive innovation; welcomes the increased budget for research in the Horizon Europe programme that was voted by the European Parliament, and the establishment of the European Research Area;

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24 a. Underlines the importance of research and innovation as a key enabler to create and exploit new synergies in the energy system;

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24 b. Highlights the value of the well-established European expertise on energy system integration, and calls on Member States to value this expertise and help transfer it the from the fossil energy sector to the renewable and low-carbon energy sectors;

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25. Welcomes the initiatives undertaken for strategic value chains; calls for 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 States;

25. Welcomes the initiatives undertaken for strategic value chains; notes the existing initiatives on strategic energy technologies11a and hydrogen 12a and calls for the establishment of an alliance for renewable energy technologies and for recognising the latter as strategic value chain, as well as an initiative on enhancing process and energy efficiency; calls on the Commission to encourage the participation of civil society and SMEs in these alliances in order to involve more Member States;

_________________11a Strategic Energy Technologies (SET) Plan.12a Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (FCH JU); European Clean Hydrogen Alliance.

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25. Welcomes the initiatives undertaken for strategic value chains; calls for the establishment of an alliance for low-carbon energy technologies; calls on the Commission to encourage the participation of SMEs in these alliances recognizing they are the backbone of European industrial economy and in order to involve more Member States;

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25. Notes the initiatives undertaken for strategic value chains; notes the establishment of industry 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;

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25. Welcomes the initiatives undertaken for strategic value chains; calls for the establishment of an alliance for decarbonised energy technologies; calls on the Commission to encourage the participation of SMEs in EU alliances in order to involve more Member States;

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25. Welcomes the initiatives undertaken for strategic value chains; calls for the establishment of an alliance for renewable energy technologies; calls on the Commission to encourage the participation of SMEs in these alliances in order to involve more Member States;

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25 a. Welcomes the development of carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) and carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS) when it may be necessary to achieve climate neutrality, and to provide negative emissions by CCS on biomass combustion, and to reduce emissions where other reasonable alternatives through CCS at fossil fuel emissions, particularly in certain industrial processes; in this regard, welcomes the Commission proposal to convene an annual European CCUS Forum as part of the Clean Energy Industrial Forum to further study options to foster such projects;

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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;

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25 a. Underlines that the energy system integration strategy is an opportunity to strengthen EU industrial leadership at a global level and the associated value chain of clean energy technologies; considers that the new industrial strategy should integrate the potential of the energy integration system;

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25 a. Underlines the potential for job creation of a renewable and low-carbon gas energy market;

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25 b. Considers that the EU should promote regulatory solutions in the heating sector and energy efficiency legislation which respect the variation between Member States' conditions and most appropriate solutions which are particularly large in these sectors;

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25 b. Underlines the importance of the renewable energy industry as a strategic

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sector in order to strengthen the competitive advantage of the EU, achieve long-term resilience and ensure energy security;

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25 c. Underlines the need to unlock investment in key sustainable clean technologies, and that European programmes and financing instruments such as Horizon Europe, the Connecting Europe Facility, InvestEU and the ETS Innovation Fund have a key role in fostering a more integrated energy system; deeply deplores the Council’s cuts affecting these instruments; welcomes the Important Projects of Common European Interest (IPCEIs) as important means to enhance investment in sustainable clean technologies; stresses that the EU sustainable finance taxonomy should guide investment in these activities to ensure they are in line with the climate neutrality target;

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Amendment 324Massimiliano Salini, Tom Berendsen, Ioan-Rareş Bogdan, Cristian-Silviu Buşoi, Christian Ehler, Gheorghe Falcă, Marian-Jean Marinescu, Ivan Štefanec, Antonio Tajani, Pernille Weiss, Jerzy Buzek, Sara Skyttedal, Sven Schulze, Tomas Tobé, Pilar del Castillo Vera


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25 c. Believes that both increased energy system integration and consumers have the opportunity to play an active role which requires a well-functioning energy market with accurate price signals that reflects the cost-effectiveness of different technical systems and greenhouse gas emissions; considers that current regulations enable uncompetitive prices for nuclear power in some Member States that do not sufficiently lead to a cost-effective decarbonised transition;

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Amendment 325Massimiliano Salini, Tom Berendsen, Ioan-Rareş Bogdan, Cristian-Silviu Buşoi, Christian Ehler, Gheorghe Falcă, Marian-Jean Marinescu, Ivan Štefanec, Antonio Tajani, Pernille Weiss, Salvatore De Meo, Maria da Graça Carvalho, András Gyürk, Edina Tóth, Jerzy Buzek, Maria Spyraki, Henna Virkkunen, Markus Pieper, Sara Skyttedal, Sven Schulze, Tomas Tobé, Pilar del Castillo Vera



25 d. Underlines that the EU’s climate policy and energy policy has to go hand in hand within creased economic growth; stresses that the energy policy must therefore always encourage cost-effective, low carbon and reliable energy sources that ensure the industry's access to energy.

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