The pie charts below show the percentage of electricity production by fuel source in France in 1990 and 2010

The pie charts illustrate the percentage of energy generated from five different sources of

fuel

(oil, coal, natural

gas

, hydropower and nuclear

power

) in France in 1990 and 2010.

Overall

, natural

gas

and coal accounted for the highest amount of

fuel

used in the production of

power

in 1990,

whereas

nuclear energy usage increased considerably in two decades after. In 1990, natural

gas

and coal were the main sources of

fuel

for electricity generation and recorded the same percentage,

that is

, just under a third. On the same note, a small proportion of hydropower was used to produce electricity.

Furthermore

, approximately 22% of the oil was the second option for the production of

power

. In the same year, only 17% of nuclear

power

contributed to the total generation of electricity in France.

However

, there was a dramatic change in the source of

fuel

for

power

production 20 years after. The ultimate source was nuclear

power

which increased drastically by half in the 1990 figure. An insignificant percentage of hydropower was used, and

also

natural

gas

and coal which used to be the main source of

fuel

in 1990 decreased moderately from 28% in both to a fifth lower and a small minority in natural

gas

and coal respectively.