Bulgaria to freeze construction projects for solar parks and wind-powered generators until 2020

Bulgaria will not develop projects for the utilisation of expensive renewable energy until 2020, stated Prime Minister Boyko Borissov at an official lunch with the American Chamber of Commerce yesterday. Nothing forces us to harness our entire power generation capacity because the cheap energy generated by the NPP Kozloduy is beyond any competition due to its low price. This sector has been tolerated for a long time at the expense of other economic sectors. Invest in sectors which are profitable for Bulgaria, recommended the Prime Minister to the representatives of US companies attending the official meeting.

According to him, it is unfair to Bulgarian citizens, who are the most impoverished in Europe, to be drained financially because the consumption of the more costly renewable energy is too expensive for them. We can invest in the use of biomass for power generation, as well as in the construction of hydropower plants, but not in solar parks and wind-powered generators, specified Borissov. He cited the data of 2011, which showed that Bulgaria is the only EU member-state which has increased its biomass production. Consequently, this "mixed energy" will be consumed by the end user and the final price might become too high if the balance of our energy system is disturbed, explained the PM. I will deliver not so delicate an appeal, compared to that of the Energy Minister, Traicho Traikov: "Stop pressing the Bulgarian ministers on resolving this issue," said the PM. I will agree to the budget allocation of BGN 1,000 should the Bulgarian companies and citizens improve their energy efficiency policy by investing in such renewable power sources and residual energy and transferring the latter to the energy network for general consumption. I am unable any longer to protect the airports from the construction of solar parks, complained he. Even during his visits to the towns of Silistra and Targovishte, he discovered that the town mayors have adjusted the airport infrastructure for the operation of solar parks.

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