integrated telecommunications network

transmission network [ broadcasting network | data-transmission network | Euronet | telecommunications network | Transpac | Communication networks(ECLAS) | telecommunication lines(UNBIS) ]

telecommunications equipment manager | telecommunications managers | telecom manager | telecommunications manager

integrated services digital network [ ISDN | integrated-services digital network ]

telecommunication network-based service | TNS [Abbr.]

private owned telecommunications industry

NATO Integrated Communications System | NICS [Abbr.]

broadband integrated services digital network | B-ISDN | BISDN | broadband ISDN

narrowband integrated services digital network | N-ISDN | NISDN | narrowband ISDN

NATO Integrated Communications System Network Control

Notes that, in order to guarantee supply security, the development of RES with variable feed-in will necessitate a flexible balancing of fluctuations and a flexible back-up through an integrated and interconnected European electricity grid that allows cross-border trading, demand response systems, energy storage and flexible power plants; calls on the Commission to assess whether there is a capacity issue in the EU and to determine the amount of firm capacity that can be provided by variable RES in an integrated EU power system, as well as its potential impact on generation adequacy; agrees with Commission’s analysis that the developme ...[+++]nt of reserve capacity mechanisms entails substantial costs and may distort price signals; notes that there is an increasing need for a stable policy framework to provide economic guarantees concerning the availability of these reserves as well as for system and balancing services; rejects the concept of competition for subsidies between energy sources and calls for an energy market design tailored to the Union’s long-term energy and climate policy objectives, which makes it possible to integrate RES technologies into the internal energy market, but acknowledges that state aid has historically been necessary in the development of all energy sources;

27. Notes that, in order to guarantee supply security, the development of RES with variable feed-in will necessitate a flexible balancing of fluctuations and a flexible back-up through an integrated and interconnected European electricity grid that allows cross-border trading, demand response systems, energy storage and flexible power plants; calls on the Commission to assess whether there is a capacity issue in the EU and to determine the amount of firm capacity that can be provided by variable RES in an integrated EU power system, as well as its potential impact on generation adequacy; agrees with Commission’s analysis that the devel ...[+++]opment of reserve capacity mechanisms entails substantial costs and may distort price signals; notes that there is an increasing need for a stable policy framework to provide economic guarantees concerning the availability of these reserves as well as for system and balancing services; rejects the concept of competition for subsidies between energy sources and calls for an energy market design tailored to the Union’s long-term energy and climate policy objectives, which makes it possible to integrate RES technologies into the internal energy market, but acknowledges that state aid has historically been necessary in the development of all energy sources;

(2) The communication from the Commission entitled "Energy infrastructure priorities for 2020 and beyond – A Blueprint for an integrated European energy network", followed by the Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council conclusions of 28 February 2011 and the European Parliament resolution of 5 July 2011, called for a new energy infrastructure policy to optimise network development at European level for the period up to 2020 and beyond, in order to allow the Union to meet its core energy policy objectives of competitiveness, sustainability and security of supply.

The initiative was boosted by the Commission's 1987 Green Paper on the Development of the Common Market for Telecommunications Services and Equipment, which set two objectives: to establish an integrated European telecommunications network, and to promote the development of lowest-cost services.