Substation · England, United Kingdom

Berinsfield Primary

Berinsfield Primary is a 33 kV primary substation in England, United Kingdom, with 10.1 MVA of demand headroom and 0 MW of generation headroom, connected by Southern Electric Power Distribution plc.

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
Location	England	SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Grid operator	Southern Electric Power Distribution plc	SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Demand headroom	10.1 MVA	SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Generation headroom	0 MW	SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Transformers	2 x 12 / 24MVA	SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Level	Primary substation	SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Fed from	Cowley Local (Reserve) BSP	SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Fed from	Cowley GSP	SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Planned reinforcement	Replace both transformers with 20 / 40MVA units (due Sep 2031)	SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Congestion (offtake)	None (green on the heat map)	SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Congestion (feed-in)	Full (red on the heat map, limited by upstream thermal capacity)	SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Voltage	33 kV (levels 33, 11 kV)	SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Coordinates	51.6550, -1.1575	SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026

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Nearby

Within 50 km of this substation: 345 power plants (113 operating, 1,685 MW), 205 grid connections (106 operating, 1,157 MW) and 66 data centers, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.

Name	Kind	Size	Status	Distance
Wally Corner Landfill Site	Power plant	7 MW	Operating	0.3 km
Burcot Lane Berinsfield grid connection	Grid connection	4.14 MW	Operating	0.4 km
Burcot Farm Battery Storage	Power plant	49.9 MW	Cancelled	1.5 km
Newington Solar Plant grid connection	Grid connection	13.7 MW	Planned	2.0 km
Burcot Solar Farm	Power plant	49.9 MW	Permitted	2.5 km
Burcot Farm - PV and Battery grid connection	Grid connection	100 MW	Planned	2.6 km
AWS Didcot Data Centre	Data center	—	—	8.3 km
University Shared Data Centre	Data center	—	—	13 km
R89	Data center	—	—	14 km

Grid operator and place

Southern Electric Power Distribution plcGrid operator
Substations in England, United Kingdom1,666
Substations in the United Kingdom2,119
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Grid connections attached to this substation

Chalgrove grid connection2 MW
Burcot Lane Berinsfield grid connection4.14 MW
Newington Solar Plant grid connection13.7 MW

Candidate sites around this substation

22 sites of land near Berinsfield Primary have it as nearest substation. Each site page gives its area, its distance to the substation and its site score; owners are on request.

135 ha site near Berinsfield Primary substation, South Oxfordshire0.43 km · score 64
126 ha site near Berinsfield Primary substation, South Oxfordshire0.43 km · score 64
119 ha site near Berinsfield Primary substation, South Oxfordshire0.86 km · score 57
70 ha site near Berinsfield Primary substation, South Oxfordshire0.24 km · score 56
48 ha site near Berinsfield Primary substation, South Oxfordshire0.08 km · score 52
109 ha site near Berinsfield Primary substation, South Oxfordshire1.34 km · score 50
37 ha site near Berinsfield Primary substation, South Oxfordshire0.04 km · score 49
110 ha site near Berinsfield Primary substation, South Oxfordshire1.49 km · score 48
53 ha site near Berinsfield Primary substation, South Oxfordshire0.44 km · score 48
32 ha site near Berinsfield Primary substation, South Oxfordshire0.04 km · score 48
102 ha site near Berinsfield Primary substation, South Oxfordshire1.45 km · score 47
113 ha site near Berinsfield Primary substation, South Oxfordshire1.83 km · score 43

All sites in South Oxfordshire

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Data on this page

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