The UK’s fossil fuel power stations

Installed capacity, megawatts

1,500

500

50

5

Peterhead

Staythorpe

1,772

Connah's Quay

1,380

Rye House

Coryton

Pembroke

2,199

Didcot B

Grain

1,450

1,517

1,500

500

50

5

Peterhead

Staythorpe

1,772

Connah's Quay

1,380

Rye House

Coryton

Pembroke

2,199

Didcot B

Grain

1,450

1,517

1,500

500

50

Peterhead

5

Staythorpe

1,772

Connah's Quay

1,380

Rye House

Coryton

Pembroke

2,199

Didcot B

Grain

1,450

1,517

Guardian graphic. Source: Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Digest of UK Energy Statistics, operational power stations at end of May 2022. Note: capacity shown for top five