Negative
Setback or risk materialised
High Impact
Major milestone or critical setback
On 25 March 2020, the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy sent a letter to NorthConnect stating that its licence applications for the proposed 1.4 GW Scotland–Norway interconnector would not be processed at that time, effectively putting the project on hold while Norway reassessed the impacts of additional export cables, amid concerns about domestic power prices and grid costs.