UK: large hydro installed capacity 2020

Installed capacity of all large operational hydro plants in the United Kingdom amounted to 470.6 megawatts as of September 2020. Glendoe Hydro plant in Scotland had an installed capacity of 100 megawatts, which was the largest capacity of all large hydro plants. 18 out of the 23 operational large hydro plants are operated by Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE). In the financial year 2018/19, SSE revenue from electricity generation amounted to approximately two billion British pounds.

Large hydro installed capacity in the United Kingdom (UK) as of September 2020, by site (in megawatts)

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September 2020

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United Kingdom

Survey time period

as of September 2020

Supplementary notes

All sites are operational.
This statistic using original data from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and includes copyright material licensed under © Crown, the Open Government License v3.0

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