December 19 (SeeNews) - The European Commission said on Tuesday it has chosen a hydrogen project in Croatia, coordinated by E.ON Hrvatska, as one of 17 innovative clean tech projects to receive over 65 million euro ($71 million) in financial support from the EU Innovation Fund.
“These funds will help companies in Europe, including small businesses, to bring breakthrough technologies to the market in energy-intensive industries, renewable energy, and energy storage,” the Commission said in a press release. Each of the 17 projects will receive Innovation Fund grants ranging from 1.6 euro to 4.5 million euro, it added without elaborating their individual values.
The Croatian project, named Sludge-to-Hydrogen for a Circular Economy (S2H2), is aimed at transforming sewage sludge into hydrogen for blending into the local gas grid and usage as fuel for 20 hydrogen powered buses operated by Zagreb's public transport entity (ZET).
Carbon black and ashes by-products will be used as additives in tyre manufacturing process and concrete production.
E.ON Hrvatska is the local arm of German utility E.ON.
($ = 0.913 euro)