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 ⟩ Stats ⟩ United Kingdom

The United Kingdom has 3659 power plants totalling 115,303 MW and 191,013 km of power lines mapped on OpenStreetMap.

Power plants in the United Kingdom by source
Source Output Count
gas 36,942 MW 181
wind 36,831 MW 711
solar 12,789 MW 1904
battery 9,023 MW 185
nuclear 6,172 MW 4
biomass 6,084 MW 115
hydro 4,515 MW 216
waste 1,511 MW 70
biogas 584 MW 165
oil 318 MW 10
diesel 262 MW 19
[unspecified] 249 MW 63
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 115,303 MW 3659

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 712 km 0.4%
10 kV – 24 kV 55,395 km 29.0%
25 kV – 51 kV 31,260 km 16.4%
52 kV – 131 kV 6,526 km 3.4%
132 kV – 219 kV 14,266 km 7.5%
220 kV – 329 kV 6,095 km 3.2%
330 kV – 549 kV 7,511 km 3.9%
550 kV – 0 m 0.0%
No voltage tagged 69,249 km 36.3%
Total 191,013 km 100.0%

Stats updated 2026-06-08