We are already seeing hydrogen technology entering real life. I hope that charging stations for hydrogen cars will soon be built in Bulgaria. This was said by the Deputy Minister of Transport and Communications Dimitar Nedyalkov during the opening of the first hydrogen charging station in Bulgaria and the region.
‘The Ministry of Transport and Communications fully supports the development of hydrogen technology and its penetration into the transport sector. We see potential for this in urban and heavy transport, as well as in railways’, said Deputy Minister Nedyalkov. He recalled that work is underway on the deployment of charging infrastructure and by the end of this year a procedure for BGN 92 million will be announced under the Transport Connectivity Programme 2021—2027 for the construction of infrastructure for alternative fuels on roads and in ports for public transport.
The first in Bulgaria and the region charging station for hydrogen electric vehicles is part of the Field Laboratory ‘Integrated Energy Systems’ of CC ‘HITMOBIL’. The project is implemented by the Central Committee ‘HITMOBIL’, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAN) and the Institute of Electrochemistry and Energy Systems ‘Academician Evgeni Budevski’ at BAN.
The hydrogen produced on site flows directly into the hydrogen charging station, where it is compressed to the pressure required for refuelling. The station has two outlets with different pressures, which allows cars, light trucks and trucks to be filled within minutes.
