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Yesterday in a speech at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, the European Union's antitrust commissioner announced an investigation into Chinese wind turbines.

We're investigating the conditions for the development of wind parks in Spain, in Greece, in France, in Romania and in Bulgaria.

The question she was asking wasn't whether they were faulty or bad value for the money.

No, the question basically was, are the wind turbines too cheap?

More specifically, has China played unfairly by subsidizing its wind turbines

to the points of pushing out its European competitors. Or are they just more efficient and

have a cheaper supply chain? In the case of at least one

BID electric vehicle that largely seems to be the case according to the bank UPS.

Either way you can look to the dominance of Chinese solar panels to see why the EU's

Anti-Trust Commissioner is concerned.

All of this raises a fundamental dilemma that both the European Union and the

Biden administration in the US are facing. They want to decarbonize as fast as

possible, but they also want to build their own green tech industries.

This is the indicator from Planet Money, I'm Wailin Wong.

And I'm Darren Woods.

Today's show, my conversation with that EU Commissioner for Competition, Margreta Vessaire.

We learn about how the European Commission is trying to build and maintain a competitive green

tech industry in Europe and how this might apply to the US.

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