After facing scrutiny and legal battles over building wind farms in the environmentally sensitive sand dunes of Brazil's Ceará state, developers have shifted future projects to the coastal flatlands, where winds are less productive. Fewer and fewer Ceará-based projects have won energy contracts in recent tenders, as plans remain tied up in addressing stringent demands from the state environment office, Semace, and legal challenges brought by the state's federal prosecutor's office.
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