Europe’s wind industry requires more and better targeted investment in research and innovation with a stronger focus on digitalisation if it is to avoid following the same fate as the continent's once-dominant PV manufacturing sector, a top European Commission official has warned.
Patrick Child, deputy director-general at the European Commission's Research and Innovation department, told a WindEurope conference session on the digital revolution at the Global Wind Summit that Europe's dominant wind manufacturing sector faces strong competition from China.
