Great Britain currently has nine operational interconnectors, listed alongside their deployed capacity:<\/p>
Figures for UK electricity generation are published in Energy Trends table 5.1, available at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/electricity-section-5-energy-trends<\/a>. Provisionally, in 2023, UK generators produced 285,606 GWh of electricity.<\/p>"}
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