Thе electricity generated by wind power plants should account for 7.5% of Bulgaria's power balance in 2020. The electricity generated by hydro power plants (HPP) should make for 8.5% of the power produced in the country during same year. The share of electricity generated by thermal power plants (TPP) and nuclear power plants should account for 42.3% and 41.7%, respectively, data presented by Dimcho Klimentov of the National Electric Company (NEK) at a conference on investments in wind farms and HPPs shows.

The power generated from renewable energy sources is forecast to reach 5,670 mWh by 2020. Wind power plants will account for 2,000 mWh of the figure, while small HPPs and big HPPs will make for 697 mWh and 2,943 mWh, respectively. .

The amount of electricity generated in Bulgaria in 2020 should reach 60 tWh. The power generated in 2006 totaled 45 tWh. Renewable energy sources accounted for 10.1% of the figure.

This means the share of electricity generated from renewable energy sources is forecast to reach 16% of the total amount of electricity produced in the country in 2020.

The figure should amount to 10.5% and 12.7% in 2010 and 2015, respectively, estimates show. Wind power generation is expected to undergo the biggest development, followed by small HPPs.

Defining Bulgaria's energy priorities is a function of several major factors, according to Dimcho Kanev. These include the utmost utilization of the local energy resources with the purpose of reducing the country's energy dependence on imports; increasing the safety of energy supplies; effective environmental policy in the utilization of the energy resources through encouraging the development ofHPPs; reintegration of the nuclear energy into the energy balance of the country and carrying out consistent research activities in the field of modern energy technologies.