I’m thinking about a Wind Turbine, my area is windy enough for it, I’m on the Jersey Bayshore. It appears the town allows it.
But not sure how noisy, how expensive and how much maintenance.
Solar Panels were very passive, almost nothing had to be done with them. But installing panels on this house would also have to include the cost of a new roof, sending the project much higher in cost and I wasn’t planning on a new roof for probably 10 more years. Please nothing on panels, I know a lot about them, I was one of the early adopters at my last home.
I can tell you that, for the last 20 years, we recommended against Wind Turbines on capital-return basis, not because of noise or maintenance. We dealt with off-grid customers, so there was no neighbor problem, but remember that the noise you hear from a traditional farm windmill was the pump, not the vanes.
Farm windmills used FREE ENERGY. No fuel at all! And they are still an obsolete technology. Even with free energy, almost nobody uses wind to pump water now.
Wind turbines didn’t normally have any maintenance. They worked for a while, then failed and were never replaced.
Commercial wind turbines are placed in places where there is very reliable wind. Some wind, enough wind, most of the time. Farm windmills pumped water into a tank: there only needed to be enough wind some of the time. It is a very unreliable source of power in most locations for most people.