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 ⟩ Stats ⟩ United Kingdom

The United Kingdom has 3389 power plants totalling 105,391 MW and 175,659 km of power lines mapped on OpenStreetMap.

Power plants in the United Kingdom by source
Source Output Count
gas 37,432 MW 171
wind 31,912 MW 691
solar 10,756 MW 1769
nuclear 6,172 MW 4
biomass 6,080 MW 112
battery 5,288 MW 129
hydro 4,504 MW 190
waste 1,511 MW 70
biogas 622 MW 160
flywheel 400 MW 1
oil 318 MW 9
diesel 276 MW 19
[unspecified] 100 MW 52
tidal 6.60 MW 3
liquid_air 5.00 MW 1
Mine Gas 4.00 MW 1
methane 2.90 MW 1
landfill_gas 2.00 MW 1
waste_heat 1
biofuel 1
abandoned_mine_methane 1
geothermal 1
minewater 1
All 105,391 MW 3389

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 571 km 0.3%
10 kV – 24 kV 44,189 km 25.2%
25 kV – 51 kV 30,616 km 17.4%
52 kV – 131 kV 6,524 km 3.7%
132 kV – 219 kV 14,186 km 8.1%
220 kV – 329 kV 5,814 km 3.3%
330 kV – 549 kV 7,420 km 4.2%
550 kV – 0 m 0.0%
No voltage tagged 66,339 km 37.8%
Total 175,659 km 100.0%

Stats updated 2025-11-18