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Home wind turbines seldom have a ROI within their life span.
Those big multi-MW ones though... When I go to my inlaws in Zeeland I pass several clusters of windmills. Every month there are new mills added to those parks; I bet there's 100 mills in about 80 miles. Each one capable of at least 2 MW.
Just like commercial solar plants, I can buy certificates for wind power and deduct their counter value of produce from my energy tax. But I'm then bound for a long time to my energy supplier, and if I do get solar panels I won't have much left to deduct, so I'll jump in as soon as hell freezes over.
Enough people do jump in though. It is both commercially and personally viable.
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