All the profit in wind energy comes from government subsidies, but right now, interest rates are burying the subsidies. Add that to the problems with wind energy not being available when and where it is needed and industry warnings from the early nineties are coming back to haunt environmental con men.
In WA, you can add the problems with protecting whales and salmon to the off shore wind energy hypocrisy in addition to the fact that we have more available hydro-power than we need.
I laugh at the idea of solar in Seattle - it has an average 226 cloud covered days a year