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

The graph below shows electricity production (in terawatt hours) in Franch between 1980 and 2012.
The graph compares four different sources used to produce
electricity
in France from 1980 to 2012. Units measured in terawatt
hours
(TW-h).
Overall
, nuclear
energy
was the most popular source used to generate
electricity
over the thirty-two-year
period
,
while
renewable
energy
was rarely used for the same purpose. In 1980, thermal
energy
was the most used source, producing about 125
terawtt
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terawatt
hours
of
electricity
.
This
was rapidly surpassed by nuclear
energy
about a year later, becoming the
dominent
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dominant
source of
electricity
by 1981.
Electricity
generation from nuclear
energy
continued to dominate over the given
period
, peaking in 2006 at around 425 TW-h. In the meantime, electric generation from thermal sources continued to drop from 1980 until 1988, when its use fluctuated around 50
terawatt
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hours
thereafter
. There were hardly any changes in the use of hydroelectric and renewable
energy
over the
period
.
Electricity
produced from renewables
were
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close to zero until 2006 were it started to minimally rise peaking at approximately 25TW-h in 2012.
On the other hand
,
electricity
generated from hydroelectric sources maintained stability over the
period
at around 60 terawatt
hours
.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • electricity production
  • terawatt hours
  • nuclear sources
  • non-nuclear sources
  • period
  • overall growth
  • peaks
  • declines
  • plateaus
  • trends
  • general trends
  • notable changes
  • increase/decrease
  • stable
  • capacity
  • fluctuations
  • production sources
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