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 ⟩ Stats ⟩ United Kingdom

The United Kingdom has 3239 power plants totalling 102,273 MW and 138,449 km of power lines mapped on OpenStreetMap.

Power plants in the United Kingdom by source
Source Output Count
gas 37,604 MW 166
wind 30,909 MW 687
solar 9,827 MW 1672
nuclear 6,172 MW 4
biomass 6,079 MW 111
hydro 4,503 MW 180
battery 4,175 MW 104
waste 1,372 MW 67
biogas 601 MW 155
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] 53
biofuel 1
geothermal 1
waste_heat 1
abandoned_mine_methane 1
All 102,273 MW 3239

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 202 km 0.1%
10 kV – 24 kV 29,433 km 21.3%
25 kV – 51 kV 25,552 km 18.5%
52 kV – 131 kV 3,674 km 2.7%
132 kV – 219 kV 13,263 km 9.6%
220 kV – 329 kV 4,632 km 3.3%
330 kV – 549 kV 6,775 km 4.9%
550 kV – 0 m 0.0%
No voltage tagged 54,919 km 39.7%
Total 138,449 km 100.0%

Updated 2024-10-09