Libya plans to get 10% of its power from renewable sources by 2025 to reduce its domestic reliance on fossil fuels and ensure it has enough oil to export, the country's Deputy Prime Minister Awad al-Baraasi said Monday.
Libya
plans
to get 10% of its power from renewable sources by 2025 to reduce its domestic
reliance on fossil fuels and ensure it has enough oil to export, the country's
Deputy Prime Minister Awad al-Baraasi said Monday.
Libya
's
electricity production depends mainly on oil and gas, which "won't be
enough to meet future demand and therefore we have short- and long-term
strategic plans for renewable energy," Mr. al-Baraasi told an energy
conference in
Dubai
.
The country aims to produce 3% of its electricity from renewables, such as
solar and wind, by 2015 and 10% of its power by 2015, and is currently studying
plans to produce power from nuclear plants, he said.
Libya
, a
member of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, has already started
building its first wind energy project in the east of the country. The project
will have a capacity to produce 60 megawatts of electricity and will be linked
to the main power grid by the end of 2014, Mr. al-Baraasi said.
It also plans to issue tenders in 2013 and 2014 for two new solar plants that
will produce about 45 megawatts of electricity, he added.
Libya
used
to produce 1.7 million barrels of oil per day before the uprising that toppled
long-time leader Moammar Gadhafi in 2011.
The holder of
Africa
's biggest crude reserves has
fast recovered its oil production since the overthrow and killing of Mr.
Gadhafi but foreign companies still complain of infrastructure constraints,
tough contract terms, and persistent insecurity.
Since the war, oil and gas facilities have frequently been the target of
protests and attacks by militias.
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