The occasional spectacular failures of the big wind turbines certainly are well documented. Here are just a few... They can make a hell of a mess for a few hundred feet around, but they don't tend to kill people or spill crude petroleum, so they're limited in damage scope.
Solar farms don't fail spectacularly, as far as I know. They wear out like anything else, but it's a pretty quiet process when they fail.
Thank you for the information. I find it hard to understand why rational people do not favor developing all our power resources, not just the carbon based ones.