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 ⟩ Stats ⟩ United Kingdom

The United Kingdom has 3751 power plants totalling 116,254 MW and 196,048 km of power lines mapped on OpenStreetMap.

Power plants in the United Kingdom by source
Source Output Count
gas 37,261 MW 184
wind 36,583 MW 711
solar 12,906 MW 1981
battery 9,769 MW 190
nuclear 6,172 MW 4
biomass 6,084 MW 115
hydro 4,515 MW 218
waste 1,511 MW 70
biogas 584 MW 166
oil 318 MW 10
diesel 262 MW 19
[unspecified] 259 MW 65
landfill_gas 7.95 MW 5
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 116,254 MW 3751

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 768 km 0.4%
10 kV – 24 kV 58,094 km 29.6%
25 kV – 51 kV 31,489 km 16.1%
52 kV – 131 kV 6,518 km 3.3%
132 kV – 219 kV 14,315 km 7.3%
220 kV – 329 kV 6,369 km 3.2%
330 kV – 549 kV 7,542 km 3.8%
550 kV – 0 m 0.0%
No voltage tagged 70,953 km 36.2%
Total 196,048 km 100.0%

Stats updated 2026-09-28