The file germany-energy-sources.txt contains data on the renewable sources of electricity produced in Germany from 1990 to 2018:

Renewable electricity generation in Germany in GWh (million kWh)
Year      Hydro    Wind      Biomass  Photovoltaics
2013     21200     49800      47800     29300
2012     21793     50670      43350     26380
2011     17671     48883      37603     19559
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The program below plots these data as a stacked bar chart, using Matplotlib's hatch patterns to distinguish between the different sources.

To include a legend, each bar chart object must be stored in a list, bars, which is passed to the ax.legend method with a corresponding sequence of labels, sources.