This is 2010 article, but it addresses the issue of abandoned wind farms.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2010/02/wind_energys_ghosts_1.html
But the wind-subsidy proposals being floated in Congress suggest that American political leaders have yet to understand that “green power” means generating electricity by burning dollars.
This is almost like strip mining without the repair, they exploit the site until the turbines expire and then leave the land ruined and filled with gargantuan abandoned structures and debris, dangerous structures.