  We analyse the possibility of the appearance of spontaneous currents in
proximated superconducting/normal metal (S/N) heterostructure when Cooper pairs
penetrate into the normal metal from the superconductor. In particular, we
calculate the free energy of the S/N structure. We show that whereas the free
energy of the N film $F_{N}$ in the presence of the proximity effect increases
compared to the normal state, the total free energy, which includes the
boundary term $F_{B}$, decreases. The condensate current decreases $F_{N}$, but
increases the total free energy making the current-carrying state of the S/N
system energetically unfavorable.
