Substation · the United Kingdom

Brook La T1 / Mannings La T1 / Newtown Chester T1 / Upton Heath T1 Substation

Name: Brook La T1 / Mannings La T1 / Newtown Chester T1 / Upton Heath T1
Address: GB

Brook La T1 / Mannings La T1 / Newtown Chester T1 / Upton Heath T1 Substation is a 33 kV primary substation in the United Kingdom, with 11.9 MVA of demand headroom and 1.43 MVA of generation headroom, operated by SP Manweb plc (SP Energy Networks, North Wales, Merseyside and Cheshire licence area).

53.1968, -2.8908 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	BROOK LA T1 / MANNINGS LA T1 / NEWTOWN CHESTER T1 / UPTON HEATH 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	11.9 MVA	SP Energy Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Generation headroom	1.43 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	53.1968, -2.8908	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: 336 grid connections (237 operating, 2,665 MW), 323 power plants (100 operating, 4,830 MW), 11 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
City Road - Solar panel	Power plant	1 MW	Permitted	0.9 km
West Chseshire Hospital grid connection	Grid connection	2 MW	Operating	1.5 km
Electricity Substation, Bellevue Lane - Battery Storage	Power plant	40 MW	Permitted	3.4 km
Portmanmoor Road Industrial Estate, Splott - Battery Storage Units	Power plant	10 MW	Permitted	3.4 km
Huntington grid connection	Grid connection	11.9 MW	Operating	3.4 km
Huntington WTW grid connection	Grid connection	4.47 MW	Operating	3.4 km
nLighten Chester	Data center	—	—	6.0 km
nLighten Edge Data Centre Liverpool	Data center	—	—	17 km
The Babbage Centre	Data center	—	—	17 km

Grid operator and place

Candidate sites around this substation

2 sites of land near Brook La T1 / Mannings La T1 / Newtown Chester T1 / Upton Heath 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.

1.5 ha brownfield site at Land at Trafford Street (rear of Somerset Street), Chester, Cheshire West and Chester0.09 km · score 41
1.5 ha brownfield site at Land at St Anne Street, Trafford Street, Chester, Cheshire West and Chester0.12 km · score 40

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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.