Ten years of intense growth have enabled Brazil’s wind market to rise from almost zero to become the world’s ninth-largest.

But a lack of perspective and blunders at the national level are putting all this at risk — in the short term at least.

It has been Brazil’s Northeast region — composed of nine states, including Rio Grande do Norte, Bahia and Ceará — that has led the market growth, attracting the attention of the world with strong, consistent winds and favourable state policies.