“Becoming a world leader in green technology is one of China’s key strategic objectives… Chinese companies have already attained leadership positions in solar power, batteries and electric vehicles, and are rapidly advancing towards dominance in wind energy as well.”
Senior researchers are sounding the alarm over the increasing grip China has on the European Union’s wind energy sector.
Writing in an October 11 report, Henrik Wachtmeister, a researcher in global energy systems at Sweden’s Uppsala University and associate analyst at the National Knowledge Centre on China (NKK), warned that China’s increasing control of the sector posed a strategic threat to the long-term economic prosperity and political autonomy of Sweden and Europe.
In the report for the Swedish National China Centre, an independent research unit at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Wachtmeister highlighted how China’s growing dominance and ambitions in “green” technology have put Europe in a tricky situation.