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 ⟩ Stats ⟩ United Kingdom

The United Kingdom has 3570 power plants totalling 111,218 MW and 187,274 km of power lines mapped on OpenStreetMap.

Power plants in the United Kingdom by source
Source Output Count
gas 37,282 MW 174
wind 33,729 MW 702
solar 11,413 MW 1861
battery 8,589 MW 177
nuclear 6,172 MW 4
biomass 6,080 MW 113
hydro 4,510 MW 206
waste 1,511 MW 69
biogas 582 MW 161
flywheel 400 MW 1
[unspecified] 353 MW 58
oil 318 MW 10
diesel 256 MW 18
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 111,218 MW 3570

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 704 km 0.4%
10 kV – 24 kV 53,844 km 28.8%
25 kV – 51 kV 31,169 km 16.6%
52 kV – 131 kV 6,525 km 3.5%
132 kV – 219 kV 14,256 km 7.6%
220 kV – 329 kV 5,859 km 3.1%
330 kV – 549 kV 7,486 km 4.0%
550 kV – 0 m 0.0%
No voltage tagged 67,431 km 36.0%
Total 187,274 km 100.0%

Stats updated 2026-04-18