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 ⟩ Stats ⟩ United Kingdom

The United Kingdom has 3307 power plants totalling 104,400 MW and 167,046 km of power lines mapped on OpenStreetMap.

Power plants in the United Kingdom by source
Source Output Count
gas 37,644 MW 166
wind 31,853 MW 690
solar 10,488 MW 1716
nuclear 6,172 MW 4
biomass 6,079 MW 111
battery 4,584 MW 113
hydro 4,502 MW 185
waste 1,428 MW 68
biogas 605 MW 157
flywheel 400 MW 1
oil 318 MW 9
diesel 276 MW 19
unknown 20.00 MW 1
[unspecified] 14.00 MW 57
tidal 6.60 MW 3
liquid_air 5.00 MW 1
methane 2.90 MW 1
landfill_gas 2.00 MW 1
abandoned_mine_methane 1
waste_heat 1
geothermal 1
biofuel 1
All 104,400 MW 3307

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 293 km 0.2%
10 kV – 24 kV 37,537 km 22.5%
25 kV – 51 kV 30,013 km 18.0%
52 kV – 131 kV 6,516 km 3.9%
132 kV – 219 kV 14,093 km 8.4%
220 kV – 329 kV 5,726 km 3.4%
330 kV – 549 kV 7,399 km 4.4%
550 kV – 0 m 0.0%
No voltage tagged 65,469 km 39.2%
Total 167,046 km 100.0%

Stats updated 2025-07-14