December 15 (SeeNews) - The Bulgarian project coordinator of one of eight planned European hydrogen valleys, the Zagora Sustainable Hydrogen Region (ZAHYR), has signed an agreement with the European Commission to receive a grant of 16 million levs ($9 million/8.2 million euro), the innovation ministry said.
Bulgaria is allocating total EU-backed funds of 32 million levs for the development of ZAHYR, to be located near the southern city of Stara Zagora and the Maritsa basin, the innovation ministry said in a press release on Thursday.
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Another 16 million levs will come from the innovation ministry under the Research, Innovation and Digitalisation for Smart Transformation operational programme for the 2021-2027 period. The programme, approved last year, has an overall budget of 2.14 billion levs.
The planned facility will be built on a municipal land plot of 20.6 ha and will comprise a 22 MWp solar photovoltaic plant for the production of green hydrogen, according to a preliminary approval granted by the Stara Zagora municipal council in 2022 and published on its website.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)