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 ⟩ Stats ⟩ United Kingdom

The United Kingdom has 3683 power plants totalling 116,121 MW and 194,710 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 12,872 MW 1919
battery 9,969 MW 191
nuclear 6,172 MW 4
biomass 6,084 MW 115
hydro 4,515 MW 217
waste 1,511 MW 69
biogas 584 MW 166
oil 318 MW 10
diesel 262 MW 19
[unspecified] 259 MW 63
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 116,121 MW 3683

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 741 km 0.4%
10 kV – 24 kV 57,094 km 29.3%
25 kV – 51 kV 31,481 km 16.2%
52 kV – 131 kV 6,518 km 3.3%
132 kV – 219 kV 14,307 km 7.3%
220 kV – 329 kV 6,100 km 3.1%
330 kV – 549 kV 7,527 km 3.9%
550 kV – 0 m 0.0%
No voltage tagged 70,942 km 36.4%
Total 194,710 km 100.0%

Stats updated 2026-08-21