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Results update as you type and the address bar keeps the filters, so a search can be shared. Each country offers the filters its public data allows. Distance, voltage, headroom and network operator are those of each site's nearest substation only: a site 0.5 km from a 150 kV substation and 1.5 km from a 380 kV one counts as 150 kV, and a voltage search does not find it. For that, the Netherlands and Germany have a filter on the distance to the nearest 380 kV substation. How the score works: Netherlands, United Kingdom, Germany.

731 of the 5,731 sites the search holds for the Netherlands match: sites of the kind park, land for sale. Sorted by site score; the first 100 are listed.

Permits nearby: permit notices in the municipality (Officiële Bekendmakingen). Farmland: farmland price of the province in EUR/ha, latest year (Eurostat): arable land, or permanent grassland where arable is missing. Water stress: baseline water stress of the site's sub-basin (WRI Aqueduct 4.0): withdrawals as a share of the renewable water supply. Business parks: business parks and port areas with land for sale are sized by the land still for sale and lie at any distance from a substation; a parcel site is on a park when its point lies inside the park's outline (IBIS, the provinces' register of business parks). Category: the highest environmental category (1 to 6) the park's zoning plan allows; 4 and up takes heavy industry. Sites: the 5,000 largest of the 22,834 candidate sites within 2 km of a substation of 110 kV or more, so every candidate of 29 ha or more is here and the rest are smaller; business parks with land for sale come on top, at any size. 380 kV: the distance to the nearest 380 kV substation (TenneT), which can be a little farther than the nearest 150 or 110 kV one: the site's own distance where its nearest substation is 380 kV, else from its nearest parcel to the station's point, which can overstate it by up to half the station's width.

Data: Source: Eurostat, https://doi.org/10.2908/APRI_LPRC; IBIS Bedrijventerreinen, IPO and RVO; Officiële Bekendmakingen; OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass); PDOK Kadastrale Kaart; PDOK Natura 2000; PDOK Ruimtelijke plannen (ruimtelijkeplannen.nl bulk download); Rare Context; Kuzma, S., M.F.P. Bierkens, S. Lakshman, T. Luo, L. Saccoccia, E. H. Sutanudjaja, and R. Van Beek. 2023. Aqueduct 4.0: Updated Decision-Relevant Global Water Risk Indicators. Technical Note. Washington, DC: World Resources Institute. doi.org/10.46830/writn.23.00061; Rare Context (sites and scores). Licence: ODbL 1.0 (https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/).

Owners are not public in any of these countries: ask for a site search with owners below.

Use it from a script or an AI

Every search here is one plain GET, with no JavaScript needed. Put the filters in the address and /sites/search answers with the matching sites as an HTML table: the first 100, in the order this page sorts them, with the number of all matches and the filters restated in a sentence. /api/sites takes the same filters and answers JSON: every site's facts as named fields and its page's URL, 100 at a time (limit, up to 1,000, and offset page through the matches). A filter that a country's data lacks is left out, and the answer says which and why.

For AI assistants, every search is also a plain link of /key/value pairs, without a query string, and each answer links to the narrower and wider searches from it: /api/sites is the start, and the API page has the prompt to give Claude or ChatGPT.

Distance, voltage, headroom and network operator are those of each site's nearest substation; in Germany also of its nearest transmission substation.

Examples

• Gelderland: plots of 20 ha or more within 2 km of a 380 kV substation and at least 1 km from Natura 2000: /sites/search?country=NL&region=NL-GE&min_ha=20&max_ehv_km=2&min_n2k=1 (JSON)
• Yorkshire and the North East: brownfield sites of 10 ha or more within 1 km of a Northern Powergrid substation with 30 MVA or more of demand headroom: /sites/search?country=GB&min_ha=10&max_km=1&kind=brownfield&dno=Northern+Powergrid&min_mw=30 (JSON)
• Germany: plots of 50 ha or more zoned industrial in the land-use plan within 1.5 km of a 380 kV transmission substation: /sites/search?country=DE&min_ha=50&max_ehv_km=1.5&zoning=industrial (JSON)

The whole index behind this search is one JSON file per country (Netherlands, United Kingdom, Germany). Its columns name each site's fields, word fields are indexes into the lists of the same name (dnos, zonings), and a site's page is /sites/{country}/{area slug}/{leaf}.

Browse by country and area

Netherlands 5,731 sites

• Drenthe303
• Flevoland536
• Friesland290
• Gelderland554
• Groningen623
• Limburg315
• North Brabant715
• North Holland661
• Overijssel522
• South Holland779
• Utrecht183
• Zeeland250

United Kingdom 8,730 sites

• Aberdeen City38
• Aberdeenshire19
• Angus15
• Argyll and Bute4
• Babergh6
• Barking and Dagenham25
• Barnet78
• Barnsley119
• Basildon12
• Basingstoke and Deane160
• Bassetlaw23
• Bedford24
• Bexley25
• Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole53
• Bracknell Forest49
• Bradford127
• Breckland9
• Brent48
• Brentwood15
• Broadland12
• Bromley11
• Broxbourne10
• Buckinghamshire142
• Calderdale51
• Cambridge22
• Camden13
• Castle Point3
• Central Bedfordshire26
• Chelmsford24
• Cheshire East5
• Cheshire West and Chester34
• Chichester73
• City of Edinburgh30
• Clackmannanshire8
• Colchester11
• Cotswold127
• County Durham330
• Cumberland9
• Dacorum14
• Darlington5
• Dartford4
• Derbyshire Dales7
• Doncaster57
• Dorset427
• Dumfries and Galloway29
• Dundee City30
• Ealing33
• East Ayrshire42
• East Cambridgeshire14
• East Dunbartonshire10
• East Hampshire55
• East Hertfordshire7
• East Lothian13
• East Renfrewshire11
• East Riding of Yorkshire314
• East Suffolk18
• Eastleigh11
• Elmbridge1
• Enfield5
• Epping Forest15
• Falkirk33
• Fareham12
• Fenland10
• Fife77
• Gateshead74
• Glasgow City203
• Great Yarmouth7
• Greenwich18
• Guildford2
• Hackney3
• Halton26
• Hammersmith and Fulham17
• Haringey38
• Harlow13
• Harrow14
• Hart54
• Hartlepool60
• Havering28
• Hertsmere18
• High Peak8
• Highland26
• Hillingdon69
• Horsham10
• Hounslow29
• Huntingdonshire5
• Inverclyde24
• Ipswich17
• Islington18
• Kensington and Chelsea9
• King's Lynn and West Norfolk14
• Kingston upon Hull, City of15
• Kingston upon Thames1
• Kirklees82
• Knowsley41
• Lambeth10
• Leeds295
• Lewisham38
• Liverpool1
• Luton8
• Manchester2
• Merton17
• Mid Suffolk18
• Middlesbrough15
• Midlothian11
• Moray2
• New Forest125
• Newcastle upon Tyne64
• Newham4
• North Ayrshire62
• North East Derbyshire10
• North Hertfordshire8
• North Lanarkshire172
• North Lincolnshire1
• North Norfolk5
• North Tyneside43
• North Yorkshire571
• Northumberland122
• Norwich29
• Orkney Islands1
• Oxford40
• Pendle22
• Perth and Kinross9
• Peterborough62
• Reading35
• Redbridge21
• Redcar and Cleveland59
• Renfrewshire40
• Richmond upon Thames6
• Rochford11
• Rotherham108
• Runnymede29
• Rushmoor16
• Scottish Borders11
• Sefton30
• Sheffield113
• Shropshire8
• Slough19
• Somerset145
• South Ayrshire18
• South Cambridgeshire31
• South Lanarkshire59
• South Norfolk8
• South Oxfordshire156
• South Tyneside49
• Southampton18
• Southend-on-Sea8
• Southwark60
• Spelthorne15
• St Albans3
• St. Helens33
• Stevenage8
• Stirling10
• Stockton-on-Tees29
• Sunderland87
• Surrey Heath34
• Swindon98
• Tendring9
• Test Valley114
• Three Rivers11
• Thurrock15
• Tower Hamlets18
• Uttlesford3
• Vale of White Horse53
• Wakefield177
• Waltham Forest20
• Wandsworth31
• Warrington33
• Watford20
• Waverley5
• Welwyn Hatfield13
• West Berkshire209
• West Dunbartonshire25
• West Lancashire1
• West Lothian35
• West Oxfordshire103
• West Suffolk7
• Westminster24
• Wiltshire364
• Winchester88
• Windsor and Maidenhead107
• Wirral23
• Wokingham39
• York54

Germany 5,000 sites

• Baden-Württemberg1,059
• Berlin46
• Brandenburg567
• Hamburg34
• Hesse403
• Lower Saxony579
• Mecklenburg-Vorpommern258
• North Rhine-Westphalia650
• Rhineland-Palatinate308
• Saarland113
• Saxony272
• Saxony-Anhalt265
• Schleswig-Holstein241
• Thuringia205

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