How is wind energy transferred into potential energy?

when any object changes its elevation from the ground the potential energy is transferred negatively or positively into kinetic energy such that the sum of potential energy and kinetic energy remains constant. For example, if a ball falls down from a height above ground. Its starting kinetic energy is zero while the potential energy is maximum. the closer it comes to ground, the less is the potential energy and the greater is the kinetic energy. The same happens in water falls.