Security of energy supply in the EU

Tabled by Paolo Borchia, Rachel Blom, Marieke Ehlers, Isabella Tovaglieri, Roberto Vannacci, Filip Turek, Sebastiaan Stöteler, Ondřej Knotek, Jana Nagyová, Jaroslav Bžoch, Klara Dostalova, Tomáš Kubín, Jaroslava Pokorná Jermanová, Tom Vandendriessche, Gerolf Annemans, Barbara Bonte, Silvia Sardone, Roman Haider, Mireia Borrás Pabón, Jorge Buxadé Villalba, Juan Carlos Girauta Vidal, Jorge Martín Frías, Margarita de la Pisa Carrión, Hermann Tertsch, Georg Mayer, Harald Vilimsky, Tamás Deutsch, Csaba Dömötör, Viktória Ferenc, Kinga Gál, Enikő Győri, András Gyürk, György Hölvényi, András László, Ernő Schaller-Baross, Pál Szekeres, Annamária Vicsek, Raffaele Stancanelli, Mélanie Disdier, Jean-Paul Garraud, Catherine Griset, Virginie Joron, Fabrice Leggeri, Julien Leonardelli, Thierry Mariani, Gilles Pennelle, Pascale Piera, Pierre Pimpie, Pierre-Romain Thionnet, Alexandre Varaut, Mathilde Androuët, Jordan Bardella, Christophe Bay, Marie-Luce Brasier-Clain, Marie Dauchy, Valérie Deloge, Anne-Sophie Frigout, Angéline Furet, Aleksandar Nikolic, Philippe Olivier, Julie Rechagneux, Julien Sanchez, Rody Tolassy, Matthieu Valet, Séverine Werbrouck, Gerald Hauser, Susanna Ceccardi, Elisabeth Dieringer, Ton Diepeveen, Sebastian Kruis, Auke Zijlstra, Nikola Bartůšek, Petra Steger, Anna Maria Cisint, Tiago Moreira de Sá, António Tânger Corrêa, Anders Vistisen

D. whereas the EU has the potential to develop Removed: renewable resources, and Added: clean and low-carbon resources; whereas since the publication of the Commission’s last Energy Security Strategy in 2014, the production of home-grown renewable energy has grown Removed: substantially – wind power by 98 %, solar photovoltaic by 314 %, solar thermal by 22 % and ocean energy by 244 %; whereas, Removed: over the same period, the EU’s domestic fossil fuel production has declined, with coal production falling by 53 %, oil by 31 % and gas by 73 %; Added: in any event, gas will remain an important part of the EU’s energy mix; whereas, during the last legislative term, the EU, through policies adopted under the Green Deal, set disproportionate energy targets, forcing accelerated transitions that the industrial sector is neither prepared for nor able to sustain without harming European competitiveness;

Wording as published by the EP, in English. PE774.001v01-00