“You can’t discard the volumes that Siemens have on their order book — clearly they’re playing in the first league,” says Nauen, who was chief executive of Siemens Wind until early 2010, when he was poached by Hamburg-based REpower.

“But considering our track record, and the volumes and projects we have in sight, I would claim for us that we are a nice number two,” he tells Recharge.

“And