Far north places have long summer days. This doesn't align well with the winter heating needs but it does balance really well with wind generation which peaks in winter.

It would make even more sense if we can synthesize fuels

We've been able to do that since at least 1897. It just wasn't important enough to bother with for a lot of the intervening time. It may still not be, we'll find out by people doing it or not doing it.