Mikhail Kopeikin said the general scheme envisaged increasing to a maximum the share of nuclear power generation, hydro power energy, and coal fired plants in the country's electric power system, while decreasing the amount of gas fired power plants.
"We have taken it as a basis, and will now finalize it," Kopeikin said.
Vyacheslav Kravchenko, director for structural and tariff policy at the Russian Industry and Energy Ministry, said the share of nuclear energy in the general electric power system would rise from 16% to 20%, coal fired power to 38%, while gas fuelled plants will be reduced to 35% - 30%.
He said, as part of the plan, power generation facilities would be built in European Russia, which also envisages the construction of hydro and nuclear power plants in European Russia and Siberia. "Coal fired plants should grow ten-fold by 2020, compared with 2006," Kravchenko said.
At a forum on Russia's fuel and energy in the 21st century early in April Kravchenko said, investment in the power distribution scheme would total $420 billion until 2020.
