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Sort of. The executive summary of the September 2008 Electric Power Monthly, released a few days ago by the Energy Information Administration — a statistical agency of the U.S. Department of Energy — states that "Wind-powered generation [in June 2008] was 81.6 percent higher than it was in June 2007."
Holy cow!
However, it goes on, "Even with this significant increase, the contribution of wind-powered generation to the national total was only 1.2 percent in June 2008."
Does it constitute a baby step in the right direction nonetheless? Maybe. The statistics are a snapshot of two chunks of time: the months of June in 2007 and 2008. Increasing the aperture gives a more complete picture. In the first six months of 2008, national power generation (which was up a point over 2007) sources break down like this:
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