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 ⟩ Stats ⟩ United Kingdom

The United Kingdom has 3187 power plants totalling 100,261 MW and 138,449 km of power lines mapped on OpenStreetMap.

Power plants in the United Kingdom by source
Source Output Count
gas 37,713 MW 165
wind 29,919 MW 683
solar 9,618 MW 1632
nuclear 6,172 MW 4
biomass 5,779 MW 110
hydro 4,506 MW 179
battery 3,616 MW 97
waste 1,337 MW 68
biogas 601 MW 155
flywheel 400 MW 1
oil 358 MW 11
diesel 206 MW 18
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 100,261 MW 3187

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