Substation · the United Kingdom

Bootle Grid T2 / Orrell Mount T1 / Scarisbrick Ave T1 / Tatton RD T1 Substation

Name: Bootle Grid T2 / Orrell Mount T1 / Scarisbrick Ave T1 / Tatton RD T1
Address: GB

Bootle Grid T2 / Orrell Mount T1 / Scarisbrick Ave T1 / Tatton RD T1 Substation is a 33 kV primary substation in the United Kingdom, with 14.7 MVA of demand headroom and 5.82 MVA of generation headroom, operated by SP Manweb plc (SP Energy Networks, North Wales, Merseyside and Cheshire licence area).

53.4659, -2.9930 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	BOOTLE GRID T2 / ORRELL MOUNT T1 / SCARISBRICK AVE T1 / TATTON RD 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	14.7 MVA	SP Energy Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Generation headroom	5.82 MVA	SP Energy Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Firm capacity	30 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	53.4659, -2.9930	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: 396 grid connections (265 operating, 2,894 MW), 339 power plants (105 operating, 5,374 MW), 13 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
Hawthorne Road	Power plant	20 MW	Under construction	0.9 km
Hawthorne Road grid connection	Grid connection	20 MW	Planned	1.0 km
Strand Gate grid connection	Grid connection	35 MW	Operating	1.6 km
Royal Seaforth Dock, New Jenkins Sheds - Solar Panels	Power plant	2.05 MW	Permitted	1.6 km
Port of Liverpool - wind	Power plant	10 MW	Operating	1.8 km
Crosby Power grid connection	Grid connection	4.3 MW	Operating	1.9 km
nLighten Edge Data Centre Liverpool	Data center	—	—	14 km
The Babbage Centre	Data center	—	—	23 km
Data center, England (OSM way 1551100328)	Data center	—	—	23 km

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Candidate sites around this substation

3 sites of land near Bootle Grid T2 / Orrell Mount T1 / Scarisbrick Ave T1 / Tatton RD 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.

6.64 ha brownfield site at Former St Wilfrid’s School, Orrell Road, Bootle, Sefton0.34 km · score 40
5.03 ha brownfield site at Klondyke Ph2&3, Monfa Road, Bootle, Sefton0.53 km · score 37
1.81 ha brownfield site at Former Johnsons Cleaners, Mildmay Road, Bootle, Sefton0.66 km · score 35

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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.