The chart illustrates electricity production in France by source namely Thermal, Nuclear, Hydroelectric and Renewables from 1980 to 2010
Overall, it is clear that the amount of electricity production in France by nuclear hit a top in a chart. However, the percentage of the electricity production in France by thermal, hydroelectric and renewables were quite low.
Looking at the chart, the amount of electricity production in France by renewables remained unchanged at 0 TW-h while the amount of electricity production by nuclear rose sustainably to about 350 TW-h from 1980 to 1995. The percentage of the electricity production in France by thermal and hydroelectric reached about 110 TW-h and 80 TW-h in 1980. Thermal declined significantly to about 50 TW-h and hydroelectric dropped very slightly to about 60 TW-h until 1995.
From 1995 to 2010, the percentage of electricity production in France by renewables increased slowly to about 20 TW-h and thermal remained unchanged to 50 TW-h. The amount of electricity production by hydroelectric declined slight to 50 TW-h while the nuclear hit a top to about 45O TW-h in 2005 and dropped slightly to about 420 TW-h until 2010.
