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
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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terawatt-hours
hours
thereafter
.
There were hardly any changes in the use of hydroelectric and renewable energy
over the period
. Electricity
produced from renewables were
close to zero until 2006 were it started to minimally rise peaking at approximately 25TW-h in 2012. Change the verb form
was
On the other hand
, electricity
generated from hydroelectric sources maintained stability over the period
at around 60 terawatt hours
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