Siemens boss demands EU action to fend off ‘cheap’ Chinese wind power imports
- Christian Bruch says either quotas or qualitative criteria could help stop the industry going the way of solar
- Principles need to be applied to create a level playing field, he says
“If you do not act it will go [to the same direction as the solar sector]. If you only decide on price, what we all did on solar, it’s not possible to really compete because I would say you don’t have a level playing field,” Bruch said in an interview on Saturday.
“We don’t ask to fence off the European market but to install principles to create a level playing field, which today is not there with Chinese suppliers,” he told the South China Morning Post on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference.
“That is something we would insist on if you want to have a pan-European industry. If not, if price is the only determining element, the European wind industry is going to have a challenge.”
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