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Forness Point Pumping Station grid connection

Forness Point Pumping Station grid connection is a grid connection in England, United Kingdom, with 1.8 MW of capacity, held by Southern Water Services Limited.

Map: where Forness Point Pumping Station grid connection lies
51.3888, 1.3950 on OpenStreetMap

Facts

Every value links to its source, and to the source's own record where it has one. Licences and last-checked dates are per row.

FactValueSource
LocationEngland (connects at St Peters 11kV)UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
StatusOperating (connected)UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
HolderSouthern Water Services LimitedUK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Attached toSt Peters 11kV (via a primary substation)UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Capacity1.8 MWUK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
TechnologyOilUK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Grid operatorSouth Eastern Power Networks plc (UK Power Networks, South East England licence area)UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Connection date11 Jan 2007UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Voltage11 kVUK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Coordinates51.3888, 1.3950UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026

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How it compares

Forness Point Pumping Station grid connection is the 3,106th-largest of 3,539 grid connections in England and the 4,304th-largest of 4,870 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 1.8 MW is <0.1% of the 467,981 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.

WithinRankTotalShare
England3,106th of 3,539341,715 MW<0.1%
United Kingdom4,304th of 4,870467,981 MW<0.1%
All grid connections in our data8,039th of 8,6181,355,288 MW<0.1%

Nearby

Within 50 km of this grid connection: 132 power plants (51 operating, 4,553 MW), 52 substations, 2 data centers and 1 transmission line, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.

NameKindSizeStatusDistance
Margate 11kVSubstation——1.4 km
Thanet Grid 33kVSubstation——2.3 km
Thanet 11kVSubstation——2.3 km
Sacketts Hill Farm - Battery Energy Storage SystemPower plant22 MWPermitted2.4 km
Hengrove Farm, Shottendane Road - Solar FarmPower plant30 MWPermitted3.5 km
Manston Road - Hydrogen Facility, Educational & OfficesPower plant34 MWPlanned4.1 km
Richborough Connection ProjectTransmission line—Permitted14 km
The Bunker - South East Data CentreData center——15 km
Sota DatacentreData center——47 km

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