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
. Change preposition
of kWh
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
of the total.
Moving on to renewables, Add a hyphen
one-fifth
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, totaling
around 75%, which was far higher than for hydroelectric (17.7%) and solar (6.1%). The situation was very different in Change the spelling
totalling
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.Submitted by writingbhos on
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