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 ⟩ Stats ⟩ United Kingdom

The United Kingdom has 3290 power plants totalling 103,595 MW and 166,234 km of power lines mapped on OpenStreetMap.

Power plants in the United Kingdom by source
Source Output Count
gas 37,644 MW 166
wind 31,841 MW 689
solar 9,906 MW 1709
nuclear 6,172 MW 4
biomass 6,079 MW 111
hydro 4,500 MW 182
battery 4,390 MW 109
waste 1,428 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 103,595 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 261 km 0.2%
10 kV – 24 kV 36,991 km 22.3%
25 kV – 51 kV 29,684 km 17.9%
52 kV – 131 kV 6,398 km 3.8%
132 kV – 219 kV 14,083 km 8.5%
220 kV – 329 kV 5,710 km 3.4%
330 kV – 549 kV 7,397 km 4.4%
550 kV – 0 m 0.0%
No voltage tagged 65,710 km 39.5%
Total 166,234 km 100.0%

Stats updated 2025-06-24