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 ⟩ Stats ⟩ United Kingdom

The United Kingdom has 3551 power plants totalling 111,213 MW and 185,526 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 11,409 MW 1844
battery 8,589 MW 176
nuclear 6,172 MW 4
biomass 6,080 MW 112
hydro 4,509 MW 205
waste 1,511 MW 69
biogas 580 MW 160
flywheel 400 MW 1
[unspecified] 353 MW 59
oil 318 MW 10
diesel 256 MW 18
tidal 6.30 MW 3
liquid_air 5.00 MW 1
landfill_gas 4.20 MW 4
Mine Gas 4.00 MW 1
geothermal 3.00 MW 2
methane 2.90 MW 1
minewater 1
abandoned_mine_methane 1
waste_heat 1
wastewater 1
biofuel 1
All 111,213 MW 3551

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 701 km 0.4%
10 kV – 24 kV 53,188 km 28.7%
25 kV – 51 kV 31,162 km 16.8%
52 kV – 131 kV 6,529 km 3.5%
132 kV – 219 kV 14,252 km 7.7%
220 kV – 329 kV 5,847 km 3.2%
330 kV – 549 kV 7,467 km 4.0%
550 kV – 0 m 0.0%
No voltage tagged 66,379 km 35.8%
Total 185,526 km 100.0%

Stats updated 2026-03-26