Advantages for Chinese wind turbine producers – EU Commission answer

Brussels, 23 June 2023

See question(s) : E-001475/2023

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E-001475/2023
Answer given by Ms Simson
on behalf of the European Commission
The EU’s renewable energy target for 2030 provides predictability on the deployment needs and will require an increase in our manufacturing capacity for the deployment of key technologies, such as wind.

The Net-Zero Industry Act (NZIA)¹, adopted in March 2023, will create better conditions to set up net-zero manufacturing projects, with the aim that the Union’s overall strategic net-zero technologies manufacturing capacity approaches or reaches at least 40% of the Union’s deployment needs by 2030. Through the implementation of the NZIA and other policy measures, EU wind technologies’ manufacturers are projected to maintain or expand their current market share throughout this decade².

The Renewable Energy Directive³ requires Member States to publish a long-term schedule anticipating the expected allocation of support to renewable energy projects. Furthermore, the Member States are currently revising their National Energy and Climate Plans, in which they are required to include the total planned installed capacity per technology that they project to use to achieve the trajectories for renewable energy in relation to the 2030 target. This will further improve the visibility of EU demand for wind turbines.