Substation · the United Kingdom

British Sidac T1 / Sherdley RD T1 / St Helens Linkway T1 / Watery La T1 Substation

Name: British Sidac T1 / Sherdley RD T1 / St Helens Linkway T1 / Watery La T1
Address: GB

British Sidac T1 / Sherdley RD T1 / St Helens Linkway T1 / Watery La T1 Substation is a 33 kV primary substation in the United Kingdom, with 8.28 MVA of demand headroom and 4.48 MVA of generation headroom, operated by SP Manweb plc (SP Energy Networks, North Wales, Merseyside and Cheshire licence area).

53.4388, -2.7097 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	BRITISH SIDAC T1 / SHERDLEY RD T1 / ST HELENS LINKWAY T1 / WATERY LA 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	8.28 MVA	SP Energy Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Generation headroom	4.48 MVA	SP Energy Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Firm capacity	18.2 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	53.4388, -2.7097	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: 511 grid connections (310 operating, 3,148 MW), 421 power plants (127 operating, 4,937 MW), 17 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
Ravenhead Landfill grid connection	Grid connection	1.1 MW	Operating	1.7 km
Burtonhead Road	Power plant	30 MW	Cancelled	1.7 km
Sutton Heath Road	Power plant	15 MW	Cancelled	1.9 km
Greengate grid connection	Grid connection	10 MW	Operating	1.9 km
St Helens Green Hydrogen Facility	Power plant	15 MW	Permitted	2.1 km
Watson Street grid connection	Grid connection	10 MW	Operating	2.1 km
Iron Mountain	Data center	—	—	5.9 km
Data center, England (OSM way 1551100328)	Data center	—	—	6.2 km
Verizon Warrington	Data center	—	—	7.5 km

Grid operator and place

Candidate sites around this substation

5 sites of land near British Sidac T1 / Sherdley RD T1 / St Helens Linkway T1 / Watery La 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.

1.71 ha brownfield site at Viridor Glass Recycling, Lancots Lane, St. Helens0.15 km · score 36
1.14 ha brownfield site at Land Between Sutton Road Lancots Lane and Dismantled Railway Line…, St. Helens0.16 km · score 36
1.96 ha brownfield site at Land at Baxters Lane, St. Helens, WA9 3EE0.29 km · score 34
2.83 ha brownfield site at Fishwicks Industrial Estate, Baxters Lane, St. Helens0.44 km · score 32
2.03 ha brownfield site at Land off Monastery Lane, Sutton, WA9 3SW, St. Helens0.7 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 Energy Networks, via Northern Powergrid Open Data. SP Energy Networks open data portal, CC BY 4.0.