It’s not just the low wind extreme that’s worthless. Loads of wind energy over the plains with all those tornadoes last weekend. But the windmills can’t collect any of that!
There is a small city beside my city named Spruce Grove.
I can only guess that the topography around the city forms a funnel into the city, because it could be blowing 1 mph to the east of the city but it blows through the city at 50 mph. It seems a good candidate to put up a few windmills around town.