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On 24 December 2024, the Préfecture du Nord granted RTE the arrêté préfectoral d'autorisation environnementale for the realisation of the electrical grid connection of the Dunkerque offshore wind farm. The AE covers the offshore electrical substation, the submarine electrical link from the offshore substation to landfall, and the onshore high-voltage line to the VENUS substation. Per the tightened schema, the AE for the RTE onshore corridor is one of the project-wide consents for the grid-connection segment; together with the DUP signed 2 January 2026 it forms the project-wide consent stack for Dunkerque Export. A companion AEU for the Dunkerque OWF itself was signed by the same préfet on 14 February 2025.</description> </invoke>