Wind is tough. Areas that most people consider to be "windy" are generally rubbish for wind generation. Before 2009-2008, a.k.a. when credit was available, there were tons of companies doing various small scale wind concepts. They're mostly all gone now, some are still around. Do some googling. For example 1KW turbines can be had for $1k or so..
With wind the bigger the blades the more efficient. The big wind companies are always trying to one up each other in blade length to each more and more efficiency out of the machine. 100m plus designs are reaching the market now.
I highly suggest looking at a company such as Sun Run http://www.sunrunhome.com/. They do solar installs and financing. Its proabably the least painful, most efficent and best way to put solar on your home. They own the equipment and maint of the equipment. You pay them a set fee per month for x # of years. You then sell your excess power back to the energy company(rates will rise over time) and therefore generally do better than breaking even... No down payments.. No screwing around with finding contractors. It's not super GRM, but The technology is still very immature and locking yourself in now to something immature could be silly.
