The graph below shows electricity production (in terawatt hours) in France between 1980 and 2012.

The graph below shows electricity production (in terawatt hours) in France between  1980 and 2012.
The illustration provides data related to four different ways of electrical
power
generation in France, over the course of thirty years, starting in 1980 until recently. It's conspicuously obvious that the dominant source of
electricity
over the period shown, generating
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430
terawatt
per hour,
while
the lowest portion of
electricity
generated was for renewables. In 1980, thermal
power
stations were the main source of
electricity
in France, generating around 120
terawatt
hours
of
power
. Nuclear and hydroelectric
power
stations produced just under 75
terawatt
hours
of
electricity
each, and renewables provided a negligible amount. Just one year later, nuclear
power
overtook thermal
power
as the primary source of
electricity
. Between 1980 and 2005,
electricity
production from nuclear
power
rose dramatically to a peak of 430
terawatt
hours
.
By contrast
, the figure for thermal
power
fell to only 50
terawatt
hours
in 1985
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and remained at
this
level for the rest of the period. Hydroelectric
power
generation remained relatively stable, at between 50 and 80
terawatt
hours
, for the whole 32-year period, but renewable
electricity
production saw only a small rise to approximately 25
terawatt
hours
by 2012.
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