Although Russia plans to increase sources of renewable energy, the country will never implement large-scale projects in the field, Russia's Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko said.
"I am wary of the idea of implementing large-scale [renewable energy projects] and think that this is not really relevant for Russia," Shmatko said at the Russian-German St. Petersburg Dialogue forum, currently underway in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg.
He said that although Russia currently has very few sources of renewable energy, by the 2015 the country plans to increase the proportion to 4.5%.
"We are going to expand a proportion of renewable energy sources," he said. "We can apply this technology locally, but we will never use it on a large-scale basis."
The Russian companies Rostekhnologii (Russian Technology) and RusHydro will sign a partnership agreement with Siemens AG at the forum on the establishment of a joint venture for manufacturing hydroelectric power units.
YEKATERINBURG, July 15 (RIA Novosti)
