The NIRP (2016) is a low-cost scenario mainly apart from other factors of national importance, but this criterion has not been considered when choosing scenarios for assessing their mitigation potential. Instead, the level of penetration of renewables has been the determining factor since the objective is to reduce emissions of GHGS and the country's strategy is geared towards increasing the share of renewables in the electricity generation sector to 75% in the medium term. All scenarios were assessed for their fuel mix over the different time steps to meet the national demand forecasted and the 4 scenarios having the highest share of renewables in 2035 were selected for evaluating their mitigation potential compared to the BAU scenario. They are scenarios 4, 5, 8 and 10 of the NRP (2016). The share of the different energy sources is presented in Figure 5.3 for the 4 mitigation and BAU scenarios for the three-time steps as the additions and phasing out of generation plants become effective. The increase in the share of renewables comprising hydro, solar, wind and biomass can be easily depicted in Figure 5.3. The complete phasing out of electricity imports in all the scenarios by 2024 is also integrated.