EU backs free ETS credits phase-out by 2020

摘要

The European Parliament's energy committee has backed full auctioning of EU emissions trading scheme allowances to the power sector from 2013, and to most other ETS-covered industrial installations from 2020 in a formal opinion on the European Commission's draft revised EU ETS law. But committee members amended the commission's original proposal to allow power generators to receive some free allowances up to 2020 for the power from high efficiency combined heat and power plants, and for any heat from such a plant sold to third parties such as district heating system operators.