For now, little is expected to change, even if Rousseff's vice president, Michel Temer, is successful at attempts to oust her for allegedly mismanaging the country's budget. Temer will be little inclined – for now – to hurt one of the few industrial sectors that is expanding and creating thousands of jobs in a declining economy, namely wind.

Even the exit of energy minister Eduardo Braga – the latest casualty of the country's two-year political and economic debacle – is not expected to derail renewable policies, in fact, in his resignation letter he hoped they would be continued.

But