Margrethe Vestager of the European Commission speaking to the media in Brussels in March 2024. On Tuesday April 9, she announced an investigation into Chinese subsidies for wind turbines.
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Margrethe Vestager of the European Commission speaking to the media in Brussels in March 2024. On Tuesday April 9, she announced an investigation into Chinese subsidies for wind turbines.
Thierry Monasse/Getty Images Europe
Europe wants clean energy, but struggles to compete with the low cost of Chinese green technologies. The EU has just announced that it is investigating subsidies received by Chinese wind turbine suppliers, which contribute to these low costs.
In today’s episode, we speak with Margrethe Vestager, the European Commissioner for Competition, about how the EU is trying to build and maintain a competitive green technology industry in the face of low-cost Chinese imports . And we wonder how U.S. climate industrial policy fits into all this action.
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