Q1. All European Union countries are expected to generate 20% of their electricity using renewable energy sources by 2020.
The estimated cost of generating electricity in the year 2020 using different energy
sources is shown in Table 1.
Table 1
Energy source
Estimated cost (in the year
2020) in pence per kWh
Nuclear
7.8
Solar
25.3
Tidal
18.8
Wind
10.0
France generated 542 billion kWh of electricity using nuclear power stations in 2011.
France used 478 billion kWh of electricity and sold the rest of the electricity to other
countries in 2011.
(a) France may continue generating large amounts of electricity using nuclear power
stations instead of using renewable energy resources.
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