The pie charts show the electricity generated in Germany and France from all sources and renewables in the year 2009.

The pie charts show the electricity generated in Germany and France from all sources and renewables in the year 2009.
The four pie charts compare the
electricity
generated between
Germany
and
France
during 2009, and it is measured in billions
kWh
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.
Overall
, it can be seen that conventional thermal was the main source of
electricity
in
Germany
,
whereas
nuclear was the main source in
France
. The bulk of
electricity
in
Germany
, whose total output was 560 billion kWh, came from conventional thermal, at 59.6%. In
France
, the total output was lower, at 510 billion kWh, and
in contrast
to
Germany
, conventional thermal accounted for just 10.3%, with most
electricity
coming from nuclear power (76%). In
Germany
, the proportion of nuclear power generated
electricity
was only
one fifth
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of the total. Moving on to renewables,
this
accounted for quite similar proportions for both countries, ranging from around 14% to 17% of the total
electricity
generated. In detail, in
Germany
, most of the renewables consisted of wind and biomass,
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around 75%, which was far higher than for hydroelectric (17.7%) and solar (6.1%). The situation was very different in
France
, where hydroelectric made up 80.5% of renewable
electricity
, with biomass, wind and solar making up the remaining 20%. Neither country used geothermal energy.
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