Ben McWilliams

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Affiliate Fellow, studying (European) energy, climate and clean tech at the Bruegel think tank.

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EU trade chief Sefcovic presser in Beijing "First, we have reached. reached a shared understanding to moderate China's export of hybrids and plugging hybrids to the European Union... opens prospects of cutting China's exports by more than a half"

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Hi Bo, thank you. If you select only the wind technology in legend should be easy to select them? But, generally, we are aware that our wind data are less complete than other technologies (it is harder to get precise CAPEX investment values) - and we are working to improve

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Where are Europe's clean tech factories? Wind factories are concentrated along coastlines; while Sicily hosts the largest solar cell facility Largest clean iron plant is Stegra in northern Sweden (with cheap hydropower) while other investments are alongside legacy plants in Germany 1/2

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For India, clean tech manufacturing is all about solar. Quarterly investments into solar panel factories are estimated at $2.5 billion by @rhg.com

For context, the US boom in solar manfuacturing during Biden term reached just under $2 bn quarterly

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Average EU petrol and diesel prices are now both > €2 per litre, a politically salient point (see Ireland). In nominal terms, both are above highs reached in 2022. Figure shows prices **before taxes**, a truer reflection of scarcity. Diesel above 2022 highs, while petrol remains a little under.

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