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This seems like a good question, JR.  I believe that the only market for the electricity is out to the grid that serves the whole country.  For the city to operate their own power company to serve their own region, so that the local region only would profit from the resource, would probably be impossibly revolutionary.  A business person could explain better, but for starters, the city would need to own the turbines and all the distribution, ie. the powerlines.   This would be a giant investment.  Maybe there are utility laws that say no one entity can control the local power generation in this way. Another thing the city could do, I suppose, is go into the business themselves.  They could build their own farms and sell the electricity like the other wind companies do.  They would lease the land, build the turbines, wait as many as ten years to hook up to the new connections to the grid in the same way that the other wind companies have been...
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