The exhibited charts illustrate how the percentage of electricity produced from 5 fuel sources, namely coal, oil, natural gas, hydro power, nuclear power in France in 1990 and 2010
Overall, it is evident that there were remarkable increases in the shares of nuclear power and oil over the period, while natural gas, coal and hydro power saw downward trends. Additionally, nuclear power experienced the most dramatic rise, became the dominant source in 2010
In 1990 the proportion of electricity generated from nuclear power was 17%, after which it underwent a dramatic rise to 67% in 2010. Furthermore, oil only accounted for 6% fuel source in 1990, with that almost doubling to 13% 20 years later. An opposite change can be seen in the figure for electricity production by coal fell by around half from 28% to 13% over the same period.
Hydro power made up 22% electricity production in 1990 ,followed by a sharp decrease to 2% in 2010. The figure for natural gas saw a similar change, plunging from 28% to 4% over a 20-year period