“Brazilian government planners are very conservative. We expect we will exceed their projection for wind installed capacity,” she said.

Brazil's federal planning authority (EPE) set down in its 10-year energy development plan (PDE 2014-2023) that wind power capacity would top 22.4GW. That would represent a yearly average of 1.9GW, up from an estimated 5.5GW installed at the end of 2014.

ABEEólica, however believes that Brazil will continue to contract the yearly average of 2.3GW