Traduction de «supply and demand » (Anglais → Français) :

46. Recognises that the financial crisis has made it more difficult to attract the required investment to finance the transformation of the energy system; highlights the new challenges, such as the need for flexible back-up and balancing resources in the power system (e.g. flexible generation, robust transmission network, storage, demand management, microgeneration and interconnection) to help accommodate the expected increase in variable power generation from renewable sources; emphasises the importance of infrastructure at distribution levels and the important role that proactive consumers and distribution system ...[+++] operators (DSOs) play during the integration into the system of decentralised energy products and demand-side efficiency measures; stresses the need for a proper assessment of the capacity available in Europe, and of the need for sufficient interconnections, and for flexible and balancing back-up capacity, to match supply with demand, thus ensuring security of electricity and gas supply; points out that granting higher priority to demand-side management and demand-side energy generation would considerably strengthen the integration of decentralised energy sources and advance the achievement of overall energy policy objectives;

Such monitoring shall, in particular, cover the balance of supply and demand on the national market, the level of expected future demand and available supplies, envisaged additional capacity being planned or under construction, and the quality and level of maintenance of the networks, as well as measures to cover peak demand and to deal with shortfalls of one or more suppliers.

Member States are responsible for monitoring security of supply issues and in particular those related to the balance of supply and demand on the national market, available supplies, maintenance of the networks and the measures to be taken in the event of supply problems.

Under the new Article 4a, this regulatory authority may also be charged with monitoring security of supply. Its task is to monitor the balance between supply and demand on the national market, the expected development of supply and demand and the level of competition existing on the market

The fact that the gas companies were partly or wholly-owned by the public authorities and that these dominant companies controlled all infrastructures and regulated supply and demand meant that there was no need to draw up common rules to guarantee gas supplies.

8. Hopes that, in the proposals for a directive amending the Directives on the internal market in electricity and natural gas, Parliament and the Council will make it clear that the Member States are entirely free in law to determine important services in the general interest, e.g. protection of vulnerable customers against unwarranted exclusion from supply arrangements, transparency of contractual conditions for the consumer, inexpensive and transparent dispute settlement mechanisms, supplying to outlying areas at appropriate prices and thus commensurate with social and economic cohesion, environmental protection and infrastructure upkeep and expansion; calls for the Member States to be obliged to make provision for a tendering procedure ...[+++]for new infrastructure capacity and/or demand side programmes if, after observing supply and demand, this proves necessary and the capacity created through licensing procedures provides no guarantee of security of supply;