Positive
Project advancing - milestone achieved
High Impact
Major milestone or critical setback
DELAYED +2yr (May 2026): projections_agent placeholder 2025-03-31 was pre-consent; actual permitting consent was only granted 14 Feb 2025 (Préfet du Nord decree, published 17 Feb 2025). Per the current power-technology profile (May 2026), Dunkerque construction is expected to start in 2026 with COD 2028; FID typically precedes pre-piling by 6-12 months, so FID is most plausibly in 2026 (year-precision) rather than any 2025 date. No FID announcement confirmed to date. --- In the June 2020 ‘Dossier des maîtres d’ouvrage’ for the Dunkerque offshore wind farm and its grid connection, EMD/RTE state a planned timeline for the project’s final investment decision: “Début 2025, la décision finale d’investissement du projet …” (i.e., at the beginning of 2025). This is used as the outlook projection for FID/financial close.