The pie charts provide information on the percentage of electricity produced in Germany and France from all sources and renewables in 2009.
Overall, it can be seen that the total generation of electricity in Germany was 560 billion kWh while France produced slightly less, at 510 billion kWh of electricity in 2009. Another striking feature highlighted by the data is that conventional thermal was the main source of electricity in Germany while while nuclear was the dominating source in France.
It is evident that almost three-fifths of Germany’s electricity generation was from conventional thermal energy. The second biggest area was nuclear energy (23%), followed by renewables, which accounted for 17.4%. Looking more closely at the data for renewables, biomass was the most efficient source of renewable energy while wind and solar energy added up to 43%. Meanwhile, hydroelectric comprised 17.7% of the total production of renewable energy.
By contrast, nuclear energy accounted for 76% of the total of France’s electricity generation, which was 53% higher than that of Germany. Renewables contributed the second highest proportion (13.7%), followed by conventional thermal with more than 10.3%. In France, the main source of renewables came from hydroelectric (80.5%). The percentage of biomass and wind was merely 8.1% and 10.5% respectively while both solar and geothermal energy were not used to generate electricity.