# European wind & cleantech

> European wind and cleantech companies: Vestas, Ørsted, Siemens Gamesa, Stiesdal, Iberdrola, EDP Renováveis, Statkraft, RWE, Voltalia, plus Danish scaleups.

European wind & cleantech companies | Euronomy

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Europe quietly built the world's wind industry. Denmark anchors it: Vestas is the world's largest wind turbine maker, Ørsted dominates offshore wind, Henrik Stiesdal (the engineer who pioneered the first commercial wind turbine in the late 1970s) is now building modular wind and pyrolysis carbon-removal. Around the Danish core sits an Iberian renewables giant (Iberdrola), a Portuguese leader (EDP Renováveis), a Norwegian state utility (Statkraft), a German integrated player (RWE), and a French scaleup (Voltalia).

This is the only major energy category where Europe genuinely owns the global lead. The Chinese turbine makers (Goldwind, Mingyang) are catching up on volume, but the engineering depth and the supply chain still live in the EU.

Below: European wind and cleantech companies worth knowing. The strategic-sovereignty argument writes itself: Europe doesn't import this category, it exports it.