Drawing from literature on transition governance and municipal wind power governance, the paper investigates local administrations’ experiences of a decade of wind power expansion in six Swedish municipalities with resource industry legacies. We use semi-structured interviews with local politicians and planners and narrative analysis to interrogate the role of resource legacies in how memories of wind power expansion and local transition trajectories for the future are forged. Memories of wind power in the local administrations are used to bridge resource legacies with the future, as the local administrations have embarked on a process of reassessing the costs and benefits of wind power developments in light of recent experiences. A common narrative of previous sacrifice and wanting to avoid being trapped in energy peripheralisation is identified, signalling an end to a prominent narrative of wind power’s inevitable expansion. That strive, however, result in different local governance paths, ranging from refusal to proactive planning for significant local wind power expansion. The paper answers to calls to investigate variegated temporalities and the role of local authorities in transition governance, to highlight slowdowns as well as accelerations, and to gain better knowledge not only of resistance but also proactive planning for wind power