The pie charts below show the amount of electricity generated by energy source in Scotland for 20 years ago and last year. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The data illustrates the amount of electricity generated by
energy
sources in Scotland 20 years ago and
last
year. Overall, the amount of electricity in the
last
year shows a quite similar pattern to the 20-year-ago in most of the
energy
sources and the types of
energy
remained the same throughout that 20 years
period
. At
first
glance, the leading
energy
types (coal, gas, nuclear) accounted respectively 41.4%, 22.3%, and 19.6%, almost a
third
-quarter of the total amount. Followed by Hydro, which was significantly higher than the rest, but constituted just only 8.7% of the total electricity . Other renewables (2.8%), oil (2.1%), and hydro-pumped storage (3.1%) were the
energy
sources generating the least
energy
for Scotland in that
period
.
On the other hand
, interestingly, coal , gas, and nuclear still remained dominant in the
last
year
period
with respectively 32.7%, 21.7% and 26.4%. Coal showed a significant drop whereas nuclear rose sharply and gas was almost identical throughout the 20-year
period
.
Furthermore
, it was other renewables and oil ,
however
, that showed the highest rate of growth, almost doubling in twenty years to 5.1% and 4.0%, respectively. Scotland's Hydro natural flow merely dropped to 7.9% in 2020.
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Example:

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