When Europe's energy transition plan encounters bottlenecks in its domestic supply chain, a cross continental industrial cooperation is unfolding. In 2025, with the rapid expansion of wind power in Europe, especially offshore wind power, Chinese companies have won nearly 30% of the order share thanks to their strong manufacturing capabilities. Among them, Daikin Heavy Industries stands out in the European market with its absolute advantage in the field of wind power infrastructure, becoming a key participant in this wave of green energy.

European energy transition accelerates, wind power enters golden window

Energy self-sufficiency has become a strategic priority for Europe. Under the promotion of the European Wind Power Action Plan, the EU has set an ambitious goal of achieving 480GW of wind power installed capacity by 2030. The market responded accordingly, and the global installed capacity of wind power continued to climb between 2023 and 2025, reaching 117GW, 128GW, and 150GW respectively. Among them, the growth of offshore wind power is particularly rapid, and the European offshore installed capacity is expected to reach 12GW by 2025, a year-on-year increase of 90%. The rapid decline in costs has also paved the way for this expansion, with offshore wind power costs decreasing by over 40% in the past decade, making it a core growth pole for Europe's energy transition.

Chinese manufacturing advances in both directions, with core components dominating

Faced with huge market opportunities, China's wind power industry presents a pattern of "dual strength of complete machines and components". In the field of whole machine manufacturing, Chinese enterprises contribute 60% of global shipments, with Goldwind Technology, Farview Energy, and Mingyang Intelligent ranking among the top three. Although exporting complete machines directly to Europe still faces some challenges, its advantage in the core component field is almost monopolistic. Chinese companies dominate in heavy asset sectors such as towers (with a global share of 70%), blades (75%), and infrastructure (65%). As the only domestic supplier of ultra large offshore wind power single piles that can meet European standards, Daikin Heavy Industry has successfully increased its market share in the European offshore wind power infrastructure equipment market to 29.1% in the first half of 2025 through the "local factory+cooperative subcontracting" model, ranking first in the industry.

Daikin Heavy Industries jumps three levels, from the coast of Bohai Sea to the world

The rise of Daikin Heavy Industries is a model of accurately grasping the opportunities of the times. Its development has gone through three key steps: initially, it started with the manufacturing of onshore wind turbine towers in Penglai, Shandong; In 2016, the company made a strategic decision to bet on offshore wind power, constructing a deep-water terminal and successfully undertaking the first large-scale offshore wind farm project in China, achieving a crucial leap from onshore to offshore. Afterwards, Daikin Heavy Industries took advantage of the policy of offshore wind power in China and even globally, and quickly grew into a global leader with its technological barriers established in core processes such as 100 meter single pile welding and ultra thick coating anti-corrosion. Keywords: engineering construction, engineering construction news

At present, its offshore infrastructure accounts for over 35% of the global market share of single pile pipe racks. As of the third quarter of 2025, Daikin Heavy Industries' overseas offshore engineering orders have exceeded 10 billion yuan, and its long-term production capacity plan has been locked in until 2030, with strong certainty of future growth. Editor/Yang Beihua