Denmark subsidised it, and now generates 20 per cent of its electricity that way.

Nuclear energy from France's 57 reactors supplies the country with 80 per cent of its electricity needs.

Greenpeace argues that Britain could produce 10 per cent of its electricity from wind, wave and solar energy by the year 2000.

The country aims to produce 16 per cent of its electricity from renewable energy sources by 2020.

In 2008, nuclear energy provided Switzerland with 40 per cent of its electricity.

The Department of Energy estimates that 10 per cent of our electricity could come from hot dry rock in 125 years' time.

This would be sufficient to provide 10 per cent of the country's electricity needs - enough to power a city the size of Amsterdam.

These two generate about 50 per cent of the Tanzania's electricity.

The Portland smelter is believed to consume between 8 and 10 per cent of the state's electricity.

Even better, AquaCity generates 80 per cent of its own electricity.