The three projects in Ceará state are the 28.8MW Praia do Morgado; 28.8MW Praias de Parajuru; and 42MW Volta do Rio, which all came on line in 2010.

“Some of the equipment at the Ceará wind farms had problems linked to the insulating material of the turbine that was aggravated by the very special physical conditions of the northeast coast of Brazil because of its combination of very high salinity in the air, humidity, high temperatures and very intensive rains,” says José Luis Menghini, executive vice-president of Impsa