Substation · the United Kingdom

Almonds Turn T1 / Atlantic Complex T1 / Giro T1 / Midland Bank T1 / Netherton T1 Substation

Name: Almonds Turn T1 / Atlantic Complex T1 / Giro T1 / Midland Bank T1 / Netherton T1
Address: GB

Almonds Turn T1 / Atlantic Complex T1 / Giro T1 / Midland Bank T1 / Netherton T1 Substation is a 33 kV primary substation in the United Kingdom, with 25.9 MVA of demand headroom and 2.41 MVA of generation headroom, operated by SP Manweb plc (SP Energy Networks, North Wales, Merseyside and Cheshire licence area).

53.4914, -2.9866 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.

Fact	Value	Source
Name in the source	ALMONDS TURN T1 / ATLANTIC COMPLEX T1 / GIRO T1 / MIDLAND BANK T1 / NETHERTON T1	SP Energy Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Location	United Kingdom	SP Energy Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Grid operator	SP Manweb plc (SP Energy Networks, North Wales, Merseyside and Cheshire licence area)	SP Energy Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Demand headroom	25.9 MVA	SP Energy Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Generation headroom	2.41 MVA	SP Energy Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Firm capacity	37.5 MVA	SP Energy Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Level	Primary substation	SP Energy Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Voltage	33 kV (levels 33, 11 kV)	SP Energy Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Coordinates	53.4914, -2.9866	SP Energy Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026

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Nearby

Within 50 km of this substation: 394 grid connections (262 operating, 2,861 MW), 336 power plants (102 operating, 5,361 MW), 15 data centers, 3 gas storage facilities and 2 transmission lines, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.

Name	Kind	Size	Status	Distance
Heysham Power GEN grid connection	Grid connection	4 MW	Operating	2.3 km
Bootle Data Centre grid connection	Grid connection	3 MW	Operating	2.5 km
Royal Seaforth Dock, New Jenkins Sheds - Solar Panels	Power plant	2.05 MW	Permitted	3.3 km
North Seaforth grid connection	Grid connection	30 MW	Planned	3.4 km
Hawthorne Road	Power plant	20 MW	Under construction	3.5 km
Royal Seaforth Dock Wind Farm	Power plant	3 MW	Operating	4.3 km
nLighten Edge Data Centre Liverpool	Data center	—	—	16 km
Data center, England (OSM way 1551100328)	Data center	—	—	23 km
Iron Mountain	Data center	—	—	25 km

Grid operator and place

Candidate sites around this substation

4 sites of land near Almonds Turn T1 / Atlantic Complex T1 / Giro T1 / Midland Bank T1 / Netherton T1 have it as nearest substation. Each site page gives its area, its distance to the substation and its site score; owners are on request.

1.08 ha brownfield site at Z Blocks Site C, Buckley Hill Lane, Netherton, Sefton0.19 km · score 53
1.88 ha brownfield site at Former St Raymonds School, Harrop's Croft, Netherton, Sefton0.34 km · score 51
1.6 ha brownfield site at Z Blocks Site A, Buckley Hill Lane, Netherton, Sefton0.53 km · score 48
1.45 ha brownfield site at Land at Pendle Drive, Pendle Drive, Bootle, Sefton0.64 km · score 46

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Data on this page

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD), Open Government Licence v3.0.
SP Energy Networks, via Northern Powergrid Open Data. SP Energy Networks open data portal, CC BY 4.0.