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Out in the panhandle, one thing my relatives never had to worry about was "too little wind!" In fact, I think the "wind that comes sweeping down the plain" comes directly from Canada through the Texas panhandle to Oklahoma!

There is a lot of available wind on the Jersey shore where another guy put up a wind turbine to help him go "off the grid". Threw in some ground-level PV panels as well (tax breaks were quite generous). Seemed to work okay, off and on, until his neighbors got an injunction against his windmill because it made too much noise. They also complained that it impacted their land because depending on where the sun was his tower blocked the sun from some of their property. So after his windmill got stopped he was getting by on grid power supplemented now and then by his PV array. Which was until a hurricane came up the coast and washed/blew his PV array away. So he ended up with a tax writeoff as the bottom line. But I think he was happy in the end about that because he was getting a bit older and not having those things saved him a heckuva lot of work, washing salt spray and seagull poop off that PV array.