Substation · the United Kingdom

Banastre RD T1 / Dover RD T1 / Grantham CL T1 Substation

Name: Banastre RD T1 / Dover RD T1 / Grantham CL T1
Address: GB

Banastre RD T1 / Dover RD T1 / Grantham CL T1 Substation is a 33 kV primary substation in the United Kingdom, with 10.5 MVA of demand headroom and 3.88 MVA of generation headroom, operated by SP Manweb plc (SP Energy Networks, North Wales, Merseyside and Cheshire licence area).

53.6244, -3.0215 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	BANASTRE RD T1 / DOVER RD T1 / GRANTHAM CL 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	10.5 MVA	SP Energy Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Generation headroom	3.88 MVA	SP Energy Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Firm capacity	20 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, 6.6 kV)	SP Energy Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Coordinates	53.6244, -3.0215	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: 378 grid connections (240 operating, 2,424 MW), 334 power plants (111 operating, 8,093 MW), 8 data centers, 2 transmission lines and 1 gas storage facility, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.

Name	Kind	Size	Status	Distance
Crossens Pumping Station - Solar Array	Power plant	1 MW	Cancelled	4.5 km
Lower House Farm	Power plant	1.9 MW	Cancelled	4.5 km
Crowland Street	Power plant	1.6 MW	Cancelled	4.8 km
Landsdale Nurseries grid connection	Grid connection	6 MW	Operating	5.0 km
Moss Farm (Southport) grid connection	Grid connection	16 MW	Planned	5.8 km
Hillhouse Sewage Works grid connection	Grid connection	1.28 MW	Operating	8.8 km
Morgan and Morecambe Offshore Wind Farms Transmission Assets	Transmission line	—	Permitted	16 km
Data center, England (OSM way 1551100328)	Data center	—	—	30 km
nLighten Edge Data Centre Liverpool	Data center	—	—	31 km

Grid operator and place

Candidate sites around this substation

1 site of land near Banastre RD T1 / Dover RD T1 / Grantham CL T1 has it as nearest substation. Each site page gives its area, its distance to the substation and its site score; owners are on request.

1.49 ha brownfield site at Land West of Lynton Road, Lynton Road, Southport, Sefton0.84 km · score 28

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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 Electricity North West, via Northern Powergrid Open Data. SP Electricity North West open data portal, CC BY 4.0.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects, Open Government Licence v3.0.
SP Energy Networks, via Northern Powergrid Open Data. SP Energy Networks open data portal, CC BY 4.0.