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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