If politics and the economy were on their normal course, renewable investors in Brazil could have started celebrating the strongest signals yet for the restart of tenders and a revamped policy for the sector, with wind and PV set to be the leading technologies in the mid- to long-term.

But even as Mines and Energy minister Fernando Coelho Filho and the president of the country’s energy planning authority (EPE), Luiz Barroso, were confidently revealing what they thought was the road ahead after more than a year of stop-and-start changes, the country entered a renewed round of political instability as new corruption allegations hit President Michel Temer.