  Facing increasing societal and economic pressure, many countries have
established strategies to develop renewable energy portfolios, whose
penetration in the market can alleviate the dependence on fossil fuels. In the
case of wind, there is a fundamental question related to the resilience, and
hence profitability of future wind farms to a changing climate, given that
current wind turbines have lifespans of up to thirty years. In this work, we
develop a new non-Gaussian method data to simulations and to estimate future
wind, predicated on a trans-Gaussian transformation and a cluster-wise
minimization of the Kullback-Leibler divergence. Future winds abundance will be
determined for Saudi Arabia, a country with a recently established plan to
develop a portfolio of up to 16 GW of wind energy. Further, we estimate the
change in profits over future decades using additional high-resolution
simulations, an improved method for vertical wind extrapolation, and power
curves from a collection of popular wind turbines. We find an overall increase
in the daily profit of $272,000 for the wind energy market for the optimal
locations for wind farming in the country.
