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3.3 Extension of TEN-E to oil infrastructure The EU should not waste its limited resources on facilitating further import dependence. The EU should attack this issue on the demand side.
The EU should not waste its limited resources on facilitating further import dependence. The EU should attack this issue on the demand side.
The development of CO2 sequestration infrastructure and other new infrastructure should not be supported by TEN-E. The EU needs to focus its resources on the electricity network with a view to enlarging the capacity for renewable energy. In this area, the EU can make an important and proven contribution. New networks should be monitored and studied. There is also a role for the EU in the area of research. A European contribution to new network infrastructure only becomes relevant once such networks are actually developing and a need for European coordination thereby arises.
If, hopefully, the text is ready tomorrow, it should be converted into a formatted Word (or other) document, and then into pdf. In this, I hope afew can help -- best would be to use the same format and styling as for his biofuels consultation. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
A point to be considered is whether we announce it as the contribution of European Tribune. I'd say yes, since they recognized us in the ONG section on the Biofuels Consultation. So the header of my .doc, giving my name as a citizen consultee, might not need to be done that way: it could just say European Tribune?
(though I do think the link to the climate change issue is a line that needs to be treaded very carefully)
Can we add anything to 3.1 and 3.2? *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
3.1
[deleted the first 'own' because 'own resources' of the EU has a specific meaning in EU jargon]
If the EU's resources are limited, the most effective approach would not be support to developers, but some sort of requirement to develop networks (utilities forced to spend from their own resources or some form of tax). The TEN-E approach needs to be focused further in two respects. First, the projects need to be determined by the Member States in close coordination with the Commission and under clear reference to EU policy goals. Second, the resources need to focus on improvements to the electricity grid, and further on projects that are especially promising for the spread of renewable energy.
3.2
The EU should drop the limitation of wanting only market-driven TEN-E planning (planned revision No. 3). The level of funding for TEN-E is inadequate, but the EU could still allocate the resources with a greater impact if it focused more clearly on the electricity network and left desired expansion of the gas network to the Member States and regulatory requirements for storage and solidarity.
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