European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA)
2025
Viegand & Maagoe
In recent years, Europe has maintained its strong position in the global market for clean energy technologies, but is facing increasing competition from other regions, particularly China. The need to ensure the competitiveness of European industries in line with the goals of climate neutrality by 2050 is clearly evident, for example, in the Clean Industrial Deal.
The European Commission therefore publishes an annual progress report on competitiveness, which assesses the state of development of clean energy technologies and the position of European industry. This is based on continuously updated, internationally comparable indicators — an essential basis for evidence-based policy-making. The data allows for both aggregated and detailed analyses by country, technology, and value chain.
For the current edition, Prognos collected key economic indicators on behalf of the European Commission, based on comprehensive data modeling. The indicators enable a consistent assessment of the competitiveness of European clean energy technologies and thus support the work of the European Commission and the Clean Technology Observatory in strengthening domestic value creation.
The analysis shows significant economic momentum across various segments of the sustainable technology value chain, such as energy generation, green electricity, wind power, solar power, and more.
The following key findings were identified:
We developed an evidence-based method for value chain analysis based on the latest and most comprehensive data sources from Eurostat. Based on Structural Business Statistics, data on gross value added, the number of people employed, and the number of companies were evaluated. The model-based approach enabled a country- and year-specific analysis of economic activities along various stages of the value chain, from research and development to manufacturing, construction, and installation activities, to plant operation.
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Project team: Jannis Lambert, Richard Simpson, Tim Bichlmeier, Robert Norpoth
Latest update: 03.12.2025
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