A judge ordered an immediate halt to construction of the 25MW Trairi wind farm on a “sunset dune” site in Flecheiras, Ceará state, after backing a lawsuit claiming it would damage a natural asset and the local economy.

The lawsuit is the latest escalation of an increasingly aggressive campaign by the federal prosecutor’s office in Ceará, which has gone after several wind farm projects being built on sand dunes, forcing developers away from the coastline and further inland where capacity factors are lower.

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