Substation · the United Kingdom
BICC Huyton Quarry T1 / Tarbock T1 / Whiston T1 Substation
BICC Huyton Quarry T1 / Tarbock T1 / Whiston T1 Substation is a 33 kV primary substation in the United Kingdom, with 12.2 MVA of demand headroom and 0.1 MVA of generation headroom, operated by SP Manweb plc (SP Energy Networks, North Wales, Merseyside and Cheshire licence area).
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 | BICC HUYTON QUARRY T1 / TARBOCK T1 / WHISTON 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 | 12.2 MVA | SP Energy Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Generation headroom | 0.1 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, 11 kV) | SP Energy Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 53.4113, -2.8023 | SP Energy Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
Research on this substation and the land around it.Its headroom, connection queue and congestion, who owns the land around it, and an introduction to those owners.
Nearby
Within 50 km of this substation: 497 grid connections (310 operating, 3,209 MW), 404 power plants (123 operating, 4,910 MW), 17 data centers, 3 gas storage facilities and 1 transmission line, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Huyton WwTW grid connection | Grid connection | 1.24 MW | Operating | 2.5 km |
| Prescot WTW grid connection | Grid connection | 3.72 MW | Operating | 2.8 km |
| Woolton WwTW grid connection | Grid connection | 1.01 MW | Operating | 4.5 km |
| Sutton Manor - Battery Storage Facility | Power plant | 57 MW | Cancelled | 4.5 km |
| St Helens Green Hydrogen Facility | Power plant | 15 MW | Permitted | 5.4 km |
| Ravenhead Glassworks Bioenergy Plant | Power plant | 2 MW | Cancelled | 5.6 km |
| The Babbage Centre | Data center | — | — | 11 km |
| Iron Mountain | Data center | — | — | 11 km |
| Data center, England (OSM way 1551100328) | Data center | — | — | 13 km |
Grid operator and place
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Candidate sites around this substation
10 sites of land near BICC Huyton Quarry T1 / Tarbock T1 / Whiston 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.
- 12 ha brownfield site at Land South Of Lickers Lane And Site Of Former Saunder's Nursery…, Knowsley0.64 km · score 35
- 12 ha brownfield site at Land South Of Lickers Lane, Windy Arbor Road, Halsnead Garden Village, Knowsley0.75 km · score 33
- 2.09 ha brownfield site at Halsnead - Former Garden Centre/Saunders Nursery site, Whiston, Knowsley0.62 km · score 33
- 1.35 ha brownfield site at Halsnead - Gateway Site 2, Knowsley0.69 km · score 32
- 9.12 ha brownfield site at Phase 3 - Fox's Bank, Halsnead Garden Village, Land West Of Fox's…, Knowsley0.84 km · score 31
- 8.2 ha brownfield site at Phase 2b - Fox's Bank, Halsnead Garden Village, Land West Of Fox's…, Knowsley0.84 km · score 31
- 3.4 ha brownfield site at Land To The South Of Lickers Lane, Halsnead Garden Village, Whiston, Knowsley0.84 km · score 30
- 16 ha brownfield site at Land South Of Lickers Lane And Site Of Former Saunder's Nursery…, Knowsley1.27 km · score 27
- 1.69 ha brownfield site at Martock, Dursley, Kingsnorth, Knowsley1.02 km · score 27
- 2.08 ha brownfield site at South Halsnead - Residential Allocation, Knowsley1.51 km · score 20
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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.
- © OpenStreetMap contributors. OpenStreetMap data centers, ODbL 1.0.
- SP Energy Networks, via Northern Powergrid Open Data. SP Energy Networks open data portal, CC BY 4.0.