gas power plants in the United Kingdom

#	Plant	Region	MW
1	Grangemouth (GBTron) power station	Stirling	2,400
2	Pembroke	Wales	2,305
3	Ferrybridge-C power station	England	2,300
4	Walpole power station	Lincolnshire	2,000
5	King's Lynn-B power station	Norfolk	1,999
6	Staythorpe C	England	1,772
7	Tees Combined-Cycle Power Plant	North Yorkshire	1,700
8	Thorpe Marsh power station	South Yorkshire	1,576
9	Theddlethorpe Flexible Generation power station	Lincolnshire	1,500
10	Didcot B	England	1,440
11	South Humber Bank	England	1,390
12	Connahs Quay	Wales	1,380
13	West Burton CCGT	England	1,332
14	Saltend	England	1,200
15	Peterhead	Scotland	1,180
16	Carrington	England	950
17	Spalding	England	950
18	Langage	England	905
19	Hillhouse Enterprise Zone power station	Lancashire	900
20	Stallingborough power station	Lincolnshire	900
21	Severn Power	Wales	850
22	Marchwood	England	842
23	Sutton Bridge	England	819
24	Seabank 1	England	812
25	Rocksavage	England	810
26	Damhead Creek	England	805
27	Coryton	England	800
28	Medway	England	755
29	Net Zero Teesside power station	Teesside	742
30	Little Barford	England	735
31	Rye House	England	715
32	Ballylumford C	Northern Ireland	616
33	Killingholme	England	600
34	Ballylumford B	Northern Ireland	540
35	Baglan Bay CCGT	Wales	520
36	Deeside	Wales	498
37	Belfast Harbour Estate power station	County Antrim	480
38	Thurrock Flexible power station	Essex	450
39	Cottam Development Centre	England	445
40	Great Yarmouth	England	420
41	Shoreham	England	420
42	Seabank 2	England	410
43	Coolkeeragh	Northern Ireland	408
44	Enfield	England	408
45	King's Lynn power station	Norfolk	395
46	Corby	England	350
47	Whitetail Clean Energy power station	Durham	300
48	Hirwaun power station	Rhondda Cynon Taf (Wales)	299
49	Meaford Energy Centre	Staffordshire	299
50	Millbrook power station	Bedfordshire	299
51	Progress power station	Suffolk	299
52	Wrexham Energy Centre	Wrexham (Wales)	299
53	Peterborough	England	240
54	Barry	Wales	230
55	Derwent power station	Derbyshire	230
56	Stanlow Refinery power station	Cheshire West and Chester	200
57	Glanford Brigg	England	150
58	Grangemouth power station	Stirling	145
59	Taylor's Lane GT	England	144
60	Kilroot OCGT	Northern Ireland	142
61	Cowes	England	140
62	Fawley Refinery power station	Hampshire	125
63	Wilton International power station	England	120
64	Ballylumford B OCGT	Northern Ireland	116
65	Smurfit Townsend Hook power station	Hook	115
66	Kemsley Paper Mill power station	Kent	102
67	Didcot GT	England	100
68	Heartlands power station	West Midlands	100
69	Winnington Brunner power station	Cheshire	94
70	Wissington Sugar Factory power station	Norfolk	93
71	Bury St Edmunds Sugar Factory power station	Suffolk	77
72	Drax GT	England	75
73	Cheshire power station	Cheshire	62
74	Blackburn Mill power station	Lancashire	60
75	Blackburn	England	59
76	Derby power station	Derbyshire	58
77	Castleford	England	56
78	Grain GT	England	56
79	Sandbach	England	56
80	Seal Sands power station	Durham	55
81	Coolkeeragh OCGT	Northern Ireland	53
82	Aberthaw GT	Wales	51
83	Saltholme North power station	Durham	50
84	Saltholme South power station	Durham	50
85	Thornhill	England	50
86	Croydon power station	Greater London	50
87	Exeter power station	Devon	50
88	Hartmoor power station	Hartlepool	50
89	Maidenhead power station	Windsor and Maidenhead	50
90	Rugeley East power station	Staffordshire	50
91	Stanford le hope power station	Bridgend	50
92	Viking power station	Durham	50
93	Lemington power station	Northumberland	50
94	Palm mill power station	Norfolk	45
95	Knapton power station	Yorkshire	42
96	Pencoed power station	Wales	40
97	Red Scar Business Park power station	Preston	40
98	West Burton GT	England	40
99	Grimsby power station		40
100	Swansea power station	Swansea	40
101	Lindsey refinery power station	Lincolnshire	38
102	Mill Hill power station	Durham	35
103	Ratcliffe GT	England	34
104	Baglan Bay OCGT	Wales	32
105	Keadby GT	England	25
106	Macclesfield Zenca power station	Cheshire	23
107	Caledon Green power station	Falkirk	22
108	North Road power station	Halton	22
109	Bracknell power station	Bracknell Forest	21
110	Fareham power station	Hampshire	21
111	Havant power station		21
112	Kirkby power station	Knowsley	21
113	Water Lane power station	Devon	21
114	Drumcross power station	West Lothian	21
115	Erskine power station	Renfrewshire	21
116	Leven power station	Fife	21
117	Pimbo power station	Lancashire	20
118	Abercorn power station	Renfrewshire	20
119	Bancroft power station	Lancashire	20
120	Chadderton power station	Oldham	20
121	Chatterley power station	Stoke-on-Trent	20
122	Exeter Peaker power station	Devon	20
123	Harelaw power station	Inverclyde	20
124	Hillhouse power station	Blackpool	20
125	Knowsley power station	Knowsley	20
126	Llandarcy power station	Neath Port Talbot	20
127	Peterborough Peaker power station	Peterborough	20
128	Redditch power station	Redditch	20
129	Little Barford GT	England	17
130	Chippenham	England	10

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Lifecycle and source reconciliation

This page contains 130 positive-capacity records totalling 52,329 MW. Lifecycle labels, capacity scope and capacity-quality provenance are kept separate so a source-backed capacity is not mistaken for a verified operating status.

86records with a resolvable source link

44records without a retained record-level link

Lifecycle labels in this page slice

Status	Records
Announced	4
Construction	4
Mothballed	1
Not Reported	16
Operating	95
Unclassified	10

Capacity provenance quality

Quality label	Records
current source verified gem operating units 2026	1
legacy source record not current verified	44
source verified gem tracker location 2026	81
source verified wikidata p2109 strict match	4

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