That was seen as a devastating blow for GE, which until then had been the company’s sole turbine supplier. But it didn’t feel that way at GE.

“The sadness at having lost Renova lasted for half an hour,” Sérgio Souza, GE’s renewables sales director for Latin America, tells Recharge. “In 2013, we sold more than 1GW [of wind turbines], which is basically the same volume we would have sold to Renova.