The title is a little odd as I wouldn’t expect it to be a trivial process to own a wind farm. I must not be optimistic enough?
Nevertheless, the Twin Cities Daily Planet investigates all the hurdles and red tape one must go through in order to own a wind farm these days. They find it’s not as easy for John Doe as it is for big utilities. Most Americans don’t qualify for the wind farm tax credits that large utilities do.
The ideas the author promotes sound a lot like the Distributism (or distributionism) economic philosophy formulated by G. K. Chesterton.
According to distributism, the ownership of the means of production should be spread as widely as possible among the general populace, rather than being centralized under the control of a few state bureaucrats (some forms of socialism) or wealthy private individuals (capitalism). A summary of distributism is found in Chesterton’s statement: “Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists.”