{"id":146646,"date":"2026-08-16T01:40:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T01:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/146646\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T01:40:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T01:40:36","slug":"vestas-ceo-says-eu-prevents-mergers-needed-to-compete-globally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/146646\/","title":{"rendered":"Vestas CEO Says EU Prevents Mergers Needed to Compete Globally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Europe\u2019s wind turbine makers would be better able to compete globally if regulators in Brussels allowed more consolidation, according to the chief executive officer of Vestas Wind Systems A\/S.<\/p>\n<p>The wind turbine industry was once dominated by European firms like Vestas that first developed the technology and scaled production to make wind a significant power source in the region and beyond. But growing competition from Chinese firms has eroded their market share.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786844436_788_.jpeg\" data-size=\"embedded\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p>Vestas Wind Systems A\/S CEO Henrik Andersen<\/p>\n<p>Photographer: Betty Laura Zapata\/Bloomberg<\/p>\n<p>European manufacturers say the European Union\u2019s regulations deter cross-border consolidation that would allow them to reach the scale needed to compete with their Chinese rivals. For decades, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Europe\u2019s wind turbine makers would be better able to compete globally if regulators in Brussels allowed more consolidation,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[281],"tags":[814,69721,69722,283,284,3916],"class_list":["post-146646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vestas-wind-systems","tag-energy","tag-international-mergers","tag-variable-interest-entities","tag-vestas-wind-systems","tag-vwdry","tag-wind-energy"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/117102643060714953","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}