The wind market is going through a phase of cut-throat “Darwinian” competition, Siemens board member Michael Sen said when asked about the drivers behind the company’s merger with Spain’s Gamesa in turbine manufacturing.

“You’re either in or you are out. Only the big and strong [OEMs] will survive,” Sen told the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper in an interview. “The smaller ones will drop out of the market.”