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 ⟩ Stats ⟩ United Kingdom

The United Kingdom has 3454 power plants totalling 107,497 MW and 182,146 km of power lines mapped on OpenStreetMap.

Power plants in the United Kingdom by source
Source Output Count
gas 37,242 MW 171
wind 32,605 MW 699
solar 10,862 MW 1799
battery 6,534 MW 143
nuclear 6,172 MW 4
biomass 6,080 MW 112
hydro 4,507 MW 197
waste 1,511 MW 70
biogas 620 MW 160
flywheel 400 MW 1
[unspecified] 347 MW 55
oil 318 MW 10
diesel 276 MW 19
tidal 6.60 MW 3
liquid_air 5.00 MW 1
landfill_gas 4.20 MW 3
Mine Gas 4.00 MW 1
methane 2.90 MW 1
waste_heat 1
biofuel 1
abandoned_mine_methane 1
geothermal 1
minewater 1
All 107,497 MW 3454

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 650 km 0.4%
10 kV – 24 kV 50,401 km 27.7%
25 kV – 51 kV 31,005 km 17.0%
52 kV – 131 kV 6,530 km 3.6%
132 kV – 219 kV 14,252 km 7.8%
220 kV – 329 kV 5,831 km 3.2%
330 kV – 549 kV 7,426 km 4.1%
550 kV – 0 m 0.0%
No voltage tagged 66,050 km 36.3%
Total 182,146 km 100.0%

Stats updated 2026-02-07