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DELAYED +10yr (Apr 2026): The developer’s 2017 indication of COD around 2022 assumed construction from end‑2019. Instead, TuNur Malta only enters ENTSO‑E’s TYNDP 2024 and 2026 as a new pre‑feasibility merchant interconnector, with no evidence of FID or construction. Given this decade‑scale slip, and allowing ~3 years for construction and ramp‑up after a late‑2020s start, full commercial operation is delayed to around 2032, roughly one year after the revised first‑power date. --- In late 2017 TuNur stated that, if it could reach financial close and start construction of the first 250 MW phase by the end of 2019, the project would require an estimated two and a half to three years of construction before entering commercial operations at full capacity, implying a planned COD in the early 2020s for the Tunisia–Malta HVDC Phase 1 link.