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The recent effects of climate change and rising global warming levels have increased the need to transition towards clean energy. The use of multi-energy systems is one of the potential solutions to these issues, as validated in the literature. The production of hydrogen from cleaner sources has an integral role in decarbonizing the industrial, building, and transportation sectors. Hence, this study proposes novel multi-energy systems that can produce hydrogen from wind resources. The study is novel as it developed an innovative multi-energy system configuration and also considers hydrogen production as a means to utilize excess wind power production. The intermittency of wind resources has been a major drawback in using this renewable energy as the singular source for multi-generation systems. The multi-energy configuration developed and analyzed in this study proposed a solution for this by integrating a regenerative reheat biomass integrated power cycle as an auxiliary system for the multi-generation system (Wind-Bio-MGS). This system is modeled to produce electricity, heating, hot water, and hydrogen. The energy, exergy, and exergoeconomic approach is adopted in this study to evaluate the steady-state performance of the system, while the levelized cost of electricity (LCOE), levelized cost of heating (LCOh), and levelized cost of Hydrogen (LCOH) are also computed. A multi-objective optimization of the overall exergy efficiency and total product unit cost is presented. The parametric analysis of the energy systems is included to show the sensitivity of different parameters to changes and validate the robustness of the modeled system. The results show that the integration of hydrogen with wind-based multi-generation systems is a viable means of reducing carbon emissions and global warming. The overall energy and exergy efficiencies of the Wind-Bio-MGS system are 69.13% and 31.16%, respectively. The LCOE, LCOh, and LCOH for the system, respectively, are 0.02828 $ kWh−1, 0.004038 $ kWh−1, and 1.311 $ kg−1 s−1. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]