Where the money lands

Every generating station in the largest-recipients table, mapped. Each bubble is one physical station; its area is proportional to cumulative payment, and its colour shows the scheme. Hover a bubble for the detail.

Basemap © Mapbox © OpenStreetMap. Bubbles are placed by each station’s coordinates and sized by cumulative payment — Contracts for Difference grouped by physical station, Renewables Obligation at buy-out value. A plant paid under both schemes shows one bubble per scheme (Drax, for example). Constraint-payment recipients are excluded: their payees are registered Balancing Mechanism lead parties, not physical assets, and cannot be located on the map.