24.2.2022
Official Journal of the European Union
EN
L 45/1489 COMMISSION PILOT PROJECTS
CHAPTER PP 09 — ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE ACTION (cont'd) PP 09 22
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(cont'd) — Energy provider: the port can deal with the energy transactions and perform energy trading (buy and sell), such as making short- and long-term contracts with producers and ship-clients.
This may be the case for charter vessels (tankers, bulk carriers, etc.) that may call at a port on occasion.
The vessel manager will not sign a long-term contract with an electricity provider but will instead opt to purchase the electricity directly from the port or from the port supplier. — Energy producer: the port can produce energy especially via RES or Energy Storage Units, aiming at providing ships with that energy.
As the energy market is unbundled, these alternative operating schemes are not always compatible with one another and, hence, the port will be obliged to select which is the most beneficial scheme according to their own business model.
Currently the way to deal with this, is for a port to analyse business risks, make an appropriate business plan, but eventually select one single option for the commercial structure of the pricing model on a sub-optimal modus operandi (i.e., not covering all cases).
In an era when RES and OPS are essentially necessary measures for the greening of port activities and when to this end significant investments are needed, a pricing model, which is not flexible due to the current regulatory requirements for energy, poses an additional hurdle to the adoption of such beneficial technologies and creates a significant bottleneck in the implementation of Green Deal targets in ports and shipping.
Therefore, a regulatory framework that is especially for ports must be established that overcomes these obstacles and allows the ports (being probably the nodes of the network with the highest concentrated external costs) to flexibly manage their energy system.
Moreover, it will create a port network that is free from obstacles and bottlenecks and capable of moving goods, services, capital, and people seamlessly.
Finally, it will create new commercial opportunities to companies operating, thus fostering port competitiveness, sustainability, and better integration of ports in the transportation and energy networks and in the international value chain.
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Pilot project — Study for High-Cadence Monitoring for the European Green Deal Figures (Differentiated appropriations) Appropriations 2022 Commitments
990 500
Appropriations 2021
Payments
Commitments
Payments
Outturn 2020 Commitments
Payments
247 625
Remarks The European Green Deal has set ambitious goals for public and private stakeholders to take action to combat climate change.
Its implementation will require an abundance of resources, including viable and actionable data to allow governments to identify risks, tailor policy response and resource allocation, and monitor progress at the local, national and regional level.
Satellite imagery provides policy-makers with a unique view of the Earth and its needs.
The Copernicus programme will be at the core of the European Green Deal monitoring strategy.
In addition, the Union has the Copernicus Contributing Missions that fill in the gaps for demand of high resolution and area coverage needed for environmental and climate policy development.
The use of contributing missions with monitoring capability shall be considered if higher temporal cadence or spatial resolution is required, to augment Sentinel missions monitoring capabilities.