The line graph compares the amount of electricity production in terms of 4 different sources of power in Franch over the period 1980 to 2012.
Overall, it is noticeable that people preferred to use nuclear power as the main sources of electricity production almost in the whole period. By contrast, there is a significant difference in the usage of renewable power.
In 1980, the most common source of electricity is from thermal power stations, nearly generating 120 terawatt hours. What’s more, nuclear and hydroelectric power stations produced around 75 terawatt hours of electricity respectively, and the value of electricity produced by renewable power is a negligible amount. Just one year later, nuclear power took the lead over thermal power.
Between 1980 and 2012, a dramatic growth was observed in electricity production from nuclear power, rising from 75 terawatt hours to 400 terawatt hours. Although the figure for thermal power experienced a decline to only 50 terawatt hours in 1985, this figure remained at this level for the rest of the period. The figure for hydroelectric power remained relatively stable between 50 terawatt hours and 70 terawatt hours in the whole 32-year period, while renewable energy generation saw a slight increase to approximately 35 terawatt hours by 2012.