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 ⟩ Stats ⟩ United Kingdom

The United Kingdom has 3290 power plants totalling 103,066 MW and 162,671 km of power lines mapped on OpenStreetMap.

Power plants in the United Kingdom by source
Source Output Count
gas 37,644 MW 166
wind 31,359 MW 688
solar 9,862 MW 1711
nuclear 6,172 MW 4
biomass 6,079 MW 111
hydro 4,505 MW 182
battery 4,389 MW 108
waste 1,421 MW 68
biogas 605 MW 156
flywheel 400 MW 1
oil 318 MW 9
diesel 276 MW 19
unknown 20.00 MW 1
tidal 6.60 MW 3
liquid_air 5.00 MW 1
methane 2.90 MW 1
landfill_gas 2.00 MW 1
[unspecified] 56
biofuel 1
geothermal 1
waste_heat 1
abandoned_mine_methane 1
All 103,066 MW 3290

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 257 km 0.2%
10 kV – 24 kV 36,364 km 22.4%
25 kV – 51 kV 28,165 km 17.3%
52 kV – 131 kV 5,004 km 3.1%
132 kV – 219 kV 14,006 km 8.6%
220 kV – 329 kV 5,610 km 3.4%
330 kV – 549 kV 7,425 km 4.6%
550 kV – 0 m 0.0%
No voltage tagged 65,840 km 40.5%
Total 162,671 km 100.0%

Stats updated 2025-06-03