Therre are some special places where wind energy will work, and will pay its way, with no subsidy needed.
Otherwise, if an energy source needs a subsidy, that itself is a demonstration that it cannot make it on its own, and that its time has not come.
The politics of green energy is rather looney. For example, some years ago there were tax subsidies for installation of solar panels. However, the subsidies were not allowed for heating swimming pools by solar means. Now, what is one of the most practical uses of solar heating? You guessed it: heating large masses of water, which hold the heat efficiently, storing it even through cool days. But no subsidies for something that works; only subsidy for things which can’t pay. Thus the federal program was selectively supporting the inefficient process over the one which actually worked. I guess that this is government”s way.
Here in Michigan, we had a company that spent a decade planning to build a coal fired plant while jumping through all the state and federal hoops only to be denied due to a lack of demand. Not two weeks later a wind farm was approved in the same area despite the lack of demand.
My electric company recently got approval to raise rates to make up for “losses” resulting from falling demand. Apparently stock holders are no longer expected to take a hit for the risk they themselves assumed. Meanwhile they’re building a wind farm.
I don’t know what happened to the rules of supply and demand but we sure as hell don’t have a capitalistic society any more.