In recent months work on the project for construction of Greece-Bulgaria interconnector has intensified, Bulgarian Energy Minister Temenuzhka Petkova said. This is a key priority for the government. Therefore for a third year running it includes in the budget a state guarantee worth 110 million euro.
This has been discussed today at a meeting of Temenuzhka Petkova with officials from the Shah Deniz consortium, the Ministry of Energy said.
“The company ICGB is already a beneficiary under Innovation and Competitiveness operational programme which allows us to use further financing to the tune of 39 million euro under the project,” she added.
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