Substation · England, United Kingdom
Bishops Stortford Grid 33kV Substation
Bishops Stortford Grid 33kV Substation is a 33 kV primary substation in England, United Kingdom, with 39.5 MVA of demand headroom and 109 MVA of generation headroom, operated by Eastern Power Networks plc (UK Power Networks, East England licence area).
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 | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Grid operator | Eastern Power Networks plc (UK Power Networks, East England licence area) | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Demand headroom | 39.5 MVA | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Generation headroom | 109 MVA | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Firm capacity | 108 MVA | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Level | Primary substation | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Voltage | 33 kV | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 51.8781, 0.1420 | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
Research on this substation and the land around it.Its headroom, connection queue and congestion, who owns the land around it, and an introduction to those owners.
Nearby
Within 50 km of this substation: 428 power plants (160 operating, 5,871 MW), 389 grid connections (261 operating, 2,927 MW), 72 data centers (1 operating, 88 MW), 1 AI supercomputer 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hadham Road | Power plant | 10 MW | Cancelled | 0.8 km |
| Wickham Hall grid connection | Grid connection | 10 MW | Planned | 0.9 km |
| Wickham Hall grid connection | Grid connection | 10 MW | Planned | 0.9 km |
| Land Near Hadham Rd grid connection | Grid connection | 40 MW | Planned | 1.2 km |
| Wickham Hall Estate - Battery Storage | Power plant | 10 MW | Permitted | 1.4 km |
| Wickham Hall Estate Solar Photovoltaic Farm | Power plant | 20 MW | Permitted | 1.4 km |
| Kao Data KLON-02 | Data center | — | — | 12 km |
| NVIDIA Cambridge-1 | AI supercomputer | 202 H100e | Operating | 12 km |
| Kao Data KLON-01 | Data center | — | — | 12 km |
Grid operator and place
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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.
- Epoch AI. Epoch AI supercomputers, CC BY 4.0.
- © OpenStreetMap contributors. OpenStreetMap data centers, ODbL 1.0.
- UK Power Networks. UK Power Networks open data portal, CC BY 4.0.