What's Up at Siemens? Wind energy market will more than quadruple by 2030

“The market will shift away from Europe significantly,” Markus Tacke, chief executive of the German company’s Wind Power division, said at a renewable energy conference in Berlin.

He said globally installed wind power capacity would increase to 1,107 gigawatt (GW) in 2030 from 273 GW in 2012, with Asia and the Pacific region accounting for more than 47 per cent of the total, up from 34 per cent now.

China is pumping billions of euros into wind power, which is more cost-competitive than solar energy and partly able to compete with coal and gas. Wind power subsidies in most parts of Europe are being slowly scaled back.

The Europe and the Middle East (EMEA) region is still the world’s largest wind market, with a 40 per cent share that will decline to 34 per cent by 2030.

Siemens Wind Power, part of the group’s Energy division, achieved sales of 3.555 billion euros in the first nine months of Siemens’ fiscal year, down 1 per cent year on year. It accounted for 6.4 per cent of the company’s total sales.

Its profit margin for the period stood at 3.6 per cent, down from 4.7 per cent a year earlier, as the company was forced to book charges because of problems relating to some of its wind turbine rotor blades.