Grid connection · England, United Kingdom

Burghfield Substation grid connection

Burghfield Substation grid connection is a grid connection in England, United Kingdom, with 47.4 MW of capacity, connected by Southern Electric Power Distribution plc.

Facts

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Fact	Value	Source
Name in the source	BURGHFIELD SUBSTATION grid connection	SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Location	England (connects at Burghfield BSP)	SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Status	Operating (connected)	SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Capacity	47.4 MW	SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Grid operator	Southern Electric Power Distribution plc	SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Voltage	33 kV	SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Coordinates	51.4264, -1.0060	SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026

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How it compares

Burghfield Substation grid connection is the 689th-largest of 2,533 grid connections in England and the 1,053rd-largest of 3,903 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 47.4 MW is <0.1% of the 446,745 MW we hold for the United Kingdom. Ranks and totals cover the grid connections in our data that report their capacity, not every one in existence.

Within	Rank	Total	Share
England	689th of 2,533	319,370 MW	<0.1%
United Kingdom	1,053rd of 3,903	446,745 MW	<0.1%
All grid connections in our data	4,443rd of 7,928	1,372,494 MW	<0.1%

Nearby

Within 50 km of this grid connection: 280 power plants (100 operating, 1,364 MW), 247 substations and 85 data centers, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.

Name	Kind	Size	Status	Distance
Burghfield (Main) BSP	Substation	—	—	0.4 km
Green Park Primary	Substation	—	—	0.4 km
Burghfield (Reserve) BSP	Substation	—	—	0.4 km
Reading Quarry	Power plant	40 MW	Permitted	0.6 km
Pingewood Road South	Power plant	15.8 MW	Operating	1.0 km
Burghfield Road, Southcote - Battery Storage Facility	Power plant	7.4 MW	Cancelled	1.4 km
Pulsant Reading SL3	Data center	—	—	1.9 km
Redcentric Reading	Data center	—	—	2.2 km
Asanti - Reading	Data center	—	—	2.4 km

Grid operator and place

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