Project On Hold

Implicit on-hold: there has been no direct Elia or Energinet statement formally pausing the TritonLink hybrid interconnector itself, but both of the project's enabling infrastructures have been deferred or re-scoped, leaving the project unable to progress beyond route-engineering and consenting work until those dependencies are resolved. On 24 August 2024 Denmark's Climate and Energy Minister Lars Aegaard told business newspaper Borsen that the Danish North Sea energy island "would not be ready until 2036 at the earliest, while the previous deadline was 2033", and that Denmark is examining cooperation with Germany on a revised concept. Belga News Agency noted on the same day that "it's not yet clear what impact the postponement will have on plans to install the Triton Link between Denmark and Belgium". On the Belgian side, Elia Transmission Belgium first postponed signing the Princess Elisabeth Island HVDC contracts on 4 February 2025 citing unprecedented HVDC price increases, then on 5 June 2025 the Belgian federal government, with Elia, decided to drop the original HVDC contract entirely and develop an "alternative concept" for the next phase of the Princess Elisabeth offshore energy hub — the very infrastructure that TritonLink's Belgian landfall depends on. As a result, neither the Danish nor the Belgian landfall infrastructure for TritonLink has a firm delivery path, and the project is treated as on hold by dependency pending resolution of both decisions.