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 ⟩ Stats ⟩ United Kingdom

The United Kingdom has 3397 power plants totalling 105,391 MW and 176,463 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 1775
nuclear 6,172 MW 4
biomass 6,080 MW 112
battery 5,288 MW 129
hydro 4,504 MW 191
waste 1,511 MW 70
biogas 620 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
landfill_gas 4.20 MW 2
Mine Gas 4.00 MW 1
methane 2.90 MW 1
waste_heat 1
biofuel 1
abandoned_mine_methane 1
geothermal 1
minewater 1
All 105,391 MW 3397

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 572 km 0.3%
10 kV – 24 kV 44,906 km 25.4%
25 kV – 51 kV 30,639 km 17.4%
52 kV – 131 kV 6,522 km 3.7%
132 kV – 219 kV 14,173 km 8.0%
220 kV – 329 kV 5,819 km 3.3%
330 kV – 549 kV 7,390 km 4.2%
550 kV – 0 m 0.0%
No voltage tagged 66,441 km 37.7%
Total 176,463 km 100.0%

Stats updated 2025-11-30