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Project advancing - milestone achieved
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Major milestone or critical setback
Forecast estimate. Per Elia press release 16 Nov 2023 (Elia source 403-blocked, fetched via MarketScreener mirror), Elia (BE) and Statnett (NO) signed a MoU to investigate the economic and technical feasibility of a hybrid HVDC interconnector linking Belgium and Norway to offshore wind farms. The press release states only that the feasibility study was expected to complete by end 2024; no COD year is published. Per the parallel Statnett offshore-grid MoU programme, realisation is conditional on the Norwegian government's Sørvest F 2025-tender outcome and subsequent grid-solution decision. Reasoning: MoU 2023 + study end-2024 + government decision 2025-2026 → development 2027-2030 → FID 2031-2032 → 5-year build → COD 2037 central case. Supersede when a Norwegian government decision quantifies the timeline.