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 ⟩ Stats ⟩ United Kingdom

The United Kingdom has 3531 power plants totalling 110,252 MW and 184,252 km of power lines mapped on OpenStreetMap.

Power plants in the United Kingdom by source
Source Output Count
gas 37,282 MW 173
wind 33,679 MW 701
solar 11,254 MW 1836
battery 7,833 MW 171
nuclear 6,172 MW 4
biomass 6,080 MW 112
hydro 4,509 MW 204
waste 1,511 MW 69
biogas 580 MW 159
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
landfill_gas 4.20 MW 3
Mine Gas 4.00 MW 1
geothermal 3.00 MW 2
methane 2.90 MW 1
minewater 1
waste_heat 1
biofuel 1
abandoned_mine_methane 1
All 110,252 MW 3531

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 691 km 0.4%
10 kV – 24 kV 52,318 km 28.4%
25 kV – 51 kV 31,144 km 16.9%
52 kV – 131 kV 6,530 km 3.5%
132 kV – 219 kV 14,250 km 7.7%
220 kV – 329 kV 5,834 km 3.2%
330 kV – 549 kV 7,431 km 4.0%
550 kV – 0 m 0.0%
No voltage tagged 66,055 km 35.9%
Total 184,252 km 100.0%

Stats updated 2026-03-11