SOFIA, Bulgaria, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- Bulgaria aims to use renewable energy to meet at least 10 percent of its energy resources for transportation by 2020, the government said.
The Energy Ministry in Sofia said a renewable energy source act would be ready within the next two weeks. Renewables would account for 16 percent of the final consumption of energy by 2020 and 10 percent in transport, the Sofia News Agency reports.
The European Union has similar targets for 2020, including sweeping reductions in greenhouse gases emissions.
The Bulgarian government said its proposal was in line with European laws in an effort to attract foreign investments, the news agency adds.
Bulgarian Energy Minister Traicho Traikov said in the wake of the announcement that construction started on a 45-megawatt solar farm in central Bulgaria.
SND Co., a South Korean solar company, is building the solar farm, which Traikov said would be the largest in the country.
