Substation · the United Kingdom

Boulevard T1 / Chapelford T1 / Hawleys La T1 / Westbrook T1 / Winwick Quay T1 Substation

Name: Boulevard T1 / Chapelford T1 / Hawleys La T1 / Westbrook T1 / Winwick Quay T1
Address: GB

Boulevard T1 / Chapelford T1 / Hawleys La T1 / Westbrook T1 / Winwick Quay T1 Substation is a 33 kV primary substation in the United Kingdom, with 16.5 MVA of demand headroom and 5.54 MVA of generation headroom, operated by SP Manweb plc (SP Energy Networks, North Wales, Merseyside and Cheshire licence area).

53.4171, -2.6154 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	BOULEVARD T1 / CHAPELFORD T1 / HAWLEYS LA T1 / WESTBROOK T1 / WINWICK QUAY 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	16.5 MVA	SP Energy Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Generation headroom	5.54 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	53.4171, -2.6154	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: 509 grid connections (310 operating, 3,185 MW), 422 power plants (130 operating, 4,957 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
Causeway Bridges Wind Farm	Power plant	4 MW	Cancelled	0.9 km
Iron Mountain	Data center	—	—	1.0 km
Verizon Warrington	Data center	—	—	1.0 km
Fairchild Road, Burtonwood & Westbrook - Solar Panels	Power plant	1 MW	Cancelled	2.2 km
Kerfoot Power grid connection	Grid connection	4.05 MW	Operating	2.2 km
Land South Of Joy Lane	Power plant	5 MW	Cancelled	2.7 km
GEN Unit 1 Plot 7C Zone 7 Omega Warngton WA5 3TY grid connection	Grid connection	1.2 MW	Operating	2.8 km
Gas 1.616 MW grid connection at North West Water Campus T1 / North West Water Campus T2 / Omega T1 / Omega T2 / Orion Boulevard T1	Grid connection	1.62 MW	Operating	3.0 km
Data center, England (OSM way 1551100328)	Data center	—	—	6.6 km

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Candidate sites around this substation

1 site of land near Boulevard T1 / Chapelford T1 / Hawleys La T1 / Westbrook T1 / Winwick Quay 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.

1.59 ha brownfield site at Former Newton Community Hospital, Bradlegh Road, Newton Le Willows, St. Helens3.33 km · score 16

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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.