The move involves 14 wind farms and will occur within 30 days. It came after federal power company Chesf confirmed a local transmission link had been energized.

Aneel said tests on the wind farms should start today. Renova has already said it is ready to start operating the plants commercially.

On 1 June, Chesf said it concluded the link with to the Igapora II substation after investing R$71m ($32m).