You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The pie charts show the electricity generated in Germany and France from all sources and renewables in the year 2009. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant. Write at least 150 words.
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The pie charts illustrate the proportions of the different kinds of sources that produced electricity in
Germany
and France
in 2009. Overall
, most of the electricity consumed in Germany
is generated from conventional thermal energy
systems, while
it is produced from nuclear energy
in France
.
Conventional thermal energy
contributes the least in France
with 10.3%, whereas
renewable energy
comprises only 17.4% of the chart of Germany
. Even though, renewables correspond to the smallest proportion of the chart, the percentage is still higher than in France
(13.7%).
Hydroelectric made up the biggest portion of the renewable energy
production in France
with 80.5%, it only provided 17.7% of the green energy
in Germany
. In comparison, Germany
generated most of its sustainable energy
through biomass which corresponds to 39.3% of the chart.
Geothermal energy
was not developed enough to get into the charts with a number in both countries, on the other side solar energy
had the second lowest percentages in France
and Germany
with 0.9% and 6.1% respectively. In total, Germany
generated 50 billion kWh more electricity than France
in 2009.Submitted by mirayturan01 on
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Vocabulary: Replace the words germany, france, energy with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: Only 6 basic words for charts were used.
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Vocabulary: The word "charts" was used 5 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "percentage" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "proportions" was used 2 times.
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