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 ⟩ Stats ⟩ United Kingdom

The United Kingdom has 3733 power plants totalling 116,130 MW and 195,407 km of power lines mapped on OpenStreetMap.

Power plants in the United Kingdom by source
Source Output Count
gas 36,962 MW 182
wind 36,583 MW 711
solar 12,881 MW 1967
battery 9,969 MW 191
nuclear 6,172 MW 4
biomass 6,084 MW 115
hydro 4,515 MW 218
waste 1,511 MW 69
biogas 584 MW 166
oil 318 MW 10
diesel 262 MW 19
[unspecified] 259 MW 64
landfill_gas 7.95 MW 4
tidal 6.30 MW 3
liquid_air 5.00 MW 1
Mine Gas 4.00 MW 1
geothermal 3.00 MW 2
methane 2.90 MW 1
biofuel 1
minewater 1
abandoned_mine_methane 1
waste_heat 1
wastewater 1
All 116,130 MW 3733

If multiple sources are listed for a power plant, only the first source is used in this breakdown.

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Power Lines
Voltage Length Percentage
0 V – 9 kV 757 km 0.4%
10 kV – 24 kV 57,610 km 29.5%
25 kV – 51 kV 31,483 km 16.1%
52 kV – 131 kV 6,518 km 3.3%
132 kV – 219 kV 14,311 km 7.3%
220 kV – 329 kV 6,148 km 3.1%
330 kV – 549 kV 7,540 km 3.9%
550 kV – 0 m 0.0%
No voltage tagged 71,042 km 36.4%
Total 195,407 km 100.0%

Stats updated 2026-09-08