In Whatcom County, the county council members voted themselves the power of approval over everything that is not expressly convered by county code, which meant that small individual windmills on private property had to go through the county approval process and were just summarily turned down. You cannot legally turn over a shovel of dirt in Whatcom County without a permit. They did eventually pass regulations regarding small private windmills.
Of course they did. As self generated energy reduction methods become popular the government will work hard to regulate and tax them. They have long been bugged about people moving off the grid. Look for more efforts to tax the essentials of life and more false or hollow subsidies for moving into the urban collectives of the liberal future.