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.

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.
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.
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Vocabulary: Replace the words germany, france, energy with synonyms.
Vocabulary: Only 6 basic words for charts were used.
Vocabulary: The word "charts" was used 5 times.
Vocabulary: The word "percentage" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "proportions" was used 2 times.
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