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Significant progress or notable issue
Regional news article on 14 November 2025 reports that TenneT has partially commissioned the new 380 kV line from Conneforde to the newly built Garrel/Ost substation. It quotes TenneT stating that with this partial commissioning, electricity from the BorWin5 offshore grid connection can now be fed into the grid via the Garrel/Ost substation. This implies that the BorWin5 HVDC connection and associated systems had entered operational system testing by this date.