Wind power is not exactly new. Competing with gas and coal is new.
I recently traveled east on I 40 across the Texas panhandle in and out of Amarillo. In our travels my wife and I have observed lots of wind turbines and count them as we go. Generally, between 10% and 20 % are not turning. That drops the efficiency for the array considerably.
That was not the case in the panhandle. The towers two and three deep went on and on and on, mile after mile after mile. The turbines co exist with the range land. The turbines were pretty much all turning. The guys in Texas have got their act together and apparently can maintain their stuff in very good order.
This is in Texas mind you. Texas across the border from Oklahoma where “the wind comes sweeping down the plain”. Literally the land of gas. You talk of subsidies qand I think like you...... somebody collected a ton of money to build those mega extensive wind farms. One or two towers like the one in New York are just plain trivial compared to Texas