My heat pump broke about 10 years ago. It's a water system that uses water from the lake in front of my house. Pretty cool actually, but getting it fixed was going to be expensive. I put in a couple of $60 window air conditioning units that keep us cool in the summer and we don't worry about heat. It's really not an issue for us. If my 'lectricity bills go over $70, my wife gets freaked out.
A better question is can you make a wind turbine that functions in both extremes? My guess is the turbine that works in Antarctica isn't going to work in Texas and vice versa. The vast majority of the time Texas isn't subject to this kind of weather. So even if you had a summer kit and a winter kit when do you deploy the winter one? If you wait for a storm system like this how do you retrofit all the turbines? If you install it in November and it reduces output or increases cost how do you justify it or make up the difference? What is the cost of having all infrastructure ready for a once in a decade event at all times?
