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 ⟩ Stats ⟩ United Kingdom

The United Kingdom has 3660 power plants totalling 115,328 MW and 191,479 km of power lines mapped on OpenStreetMap.

Power plants in the United Kingdom by source
Source Output Count
gas 36,962 MW 182
wind 36,831 MW 711
solar 12,788 MW 1904
battery 9,023 MW 185
nuclear 6,172 MW 4
biomass 6,084 MW 115
hydro 4,515 MW 216
waste 1,511 MW 69
biogas 584 MW 165
oil 318 MW 10
diesel 262 MW 19
[unspecified] 249 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 115,328 MW 3660

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 718 km 0.4%
10 kV – 24 kV 55,722 km 29.1%
25 kV – 51 kV 31,295 km 16.3%
52 kV – 131 kV 6,525 km 3.4%
132 kV – 219 kV 14,267 km 7.5%
220 kV – 329 kV 6,095 km 3.2%
330 kV – 549 kV 7,511 km 3.9%
550 kV – 0 m 0.0%
No voltage tagged 69,345 km 36.2%
Total 191,479 km 100.0%

Stats updated 2026-06-21