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 ⟩ Stats ⟩ United Kingdom

The United Kingdom has 3618 power plants totalling 114,976 MW and 190,205 km of power lines mapped on OpenStreetMap.

Power plants in the United Kingdom by source
Source Output Count
gas 37,324 MW 178
wind 36,831 MW 711
solar 12,046 MW 1877
battery 9,063 MW 184
nuclear 6,172 MW 4
biomass 6,084 MW 115
hydro 4,514 MW 215
waste 1,511 MW 69
biogas 584 MW 165
oil 318 MW 10
diesel 256 MW 18
[unspecified] 249 MW 56
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 114,976 MW 3618

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 711 km 0.4%
10 kV – 24 kV 54,574 km 28.7%
25 kV – 51 kV 31,168 km 16.4%
52 kV – 131 kV 6,524 km 3.4%
132 kV – 219 kV 14,265 km 7.5%
220 kV – 329 kV 6,084 km 3.2%
330 kV – 549 kV 7,510 km 3.9%
550 kV – 0 m 0.0%
No voltage tagged 69,369 km 36.5%
Total 190,205 km 100.0%

Stats updated 2026-05-19