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 ⟩ Stats ⟩ United Kingdom

The United Kingdom has 3579 power plants totalling 113,862 MW and 188,766 km of power lines mapped on OpenStreetMap.

Power plants in the United Kingdom by source
Source Output Count
gas 37,324 MW 174
wind 36,329 MW 704
solar 11,412 MW 1866
battery 8,589 MW 177
nuclear 6,172 MW 4
biomass 6,080 MW 113
hydro 4,512 MW 209
waste 1,511 MW 69
biogas 582 MW 161
flywheel 400 MW 1
[unspecified] 353 MW 57
oil 318 MW 10
diesel 256 MW 18
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
landfill_gas 2.20 MW 3
minewater 1
abandoned_mine_methane 1
waste_heat 1
wastewater 1
biofuel 1
All 113,862 MW 3579

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 705 km 0.4%
10 kV – 24 kV 54,160 km 28.7%
25 kV – 51 kV 31,174 km 16.5%
52 kV – 131 kV 6,525 km 3.5%
132 kV – 219 kV 14,262 km 7.6%
220 kV – 329 kV 6,084 km 3.2%
330 kV – 549 kV 7,498 km 4.0%
550 kV – 0 m 0.0%
No voltage tagged 68,358 km 36.2%
Total 188,766 km 100.0%

Stats updated 2026-04-29