Brazil May Become Fourth Biggest Market for Wind Farms in 2012

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Brazil may become the world’s fourth largest installer of wind farms in 2012, up from 11th last year, as some developed nations cut subsidies for renewable energy.

South America’s largest economy may build wind farms with as much as 2,000 megawatts of capacity this year, trailing China, the U.S., and India, Steve Sawyer, secretary general of the Brussels-based industry lobby group Global Wind Energy Council, said today in a telephone interview.