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 ⟩ Stats ⟩ United Kingdom

The United Kingdom has 3515 power plants totalling 109,965 MW and 183,768 km of power lines mapped on OpenStreetMap.

Power plants in the United Kingdom by source
Source Output Count
gas 37,282 MW 173
wind 33,679 MW 701
solar 11,236 MW 1827
battery 7,565 MW 165
nuclear 6,172 MW 4
biomass 6,080 MW 112
hydro 4,509 MW 203
waste 1,511 MW 69
biogas 580 MW 159
flywheel 400 MW 1
[unspecified] 353 MW 58
oil 318 MW 10
diesel 256 MW 18
tidal 6.30 MW 3
liquid_air 5.00 MW 1
landfill_gas 4.20 MW 3
Mine Gas 4.00 MW 1
geothermal 3.00 MW 2
methane 2.90 MW 1
minewater 1
waste_heat 1
biofuel 1
abandoned_mine_methane 1
All 109,965 MW 3515

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 680 km 0.4%
10 kV – 24 kV 51,876 km 28.2%
25 kV – 51 kV 31,064 km 16.9%
52 kV – 131 kV 6,530 km 3.6%
132 kV – 219 kV 14,244 km 7.8%
220 kV – 329 kV 5,834 km 3.2%
330 kV – 549 kV 7,430 km 4.0%
550 kV – 0 m 0.0%
No voltage tagged 66,110 km 36.0%
Total 183,768 km 100.0%

Stats updated 2026-02-27