Substation · England, United Kingdom

Carlton Hill

Carlton Hill is an 11 kV primary substation in England, United Kingdom, with 0 MVA of demand headroom and 27.1 MW of generation headroom, connected by Northern Powergrid (Yorkshire) 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	Northern Powergrid open data portal · Northern Powergrid Open Data Licence v1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Grid operator	Northern Powergrid (Yorkshire) plc	Northern Powergrid open data portal · Northern Powergrid Open Data Licence v1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Demand headroom	0 MVA	Northern Powergrid open data portal · Northern Powergrid Open Data Licence v1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Generation headroom	27.1 MW	Northern Powergrid open data portal · Northern Powergrid Open Data Licence v1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Firm capacity	23 MVA	Northern Powergrid open data portal · Northern Powergrid Open Data Licence v1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Level	Primary substation	Northern Powergrid open data portal · Northern Powergrid Open Data Licence v1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Fed from	Skelton Grange	Northern Powergrid open data portal · Northern Powergrid Open Data Licence v1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Fed from	Leeds North	Northern Powergrid open data portal · Northern Powergrid Open Data Licence v1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Congestion (offtake)	None (green on the heat map)	Northern Powergrid open data portal · Northern Powergrid Open Data Licence v1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Congestion (feed-in)	None (green on the heat map)	Northern Powergrid open data portal · Northern Powergrid Open Data Licence v1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Voltage	11 kV	Northern Powergrid open data portal · Northern Powergrid Open Data Licence v1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Coordinates	53.8057, -1.5451	Northern Powergrid open data portal · Northern Powergrid Open Data Licence v1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026

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Nearby

Within 50 km of this substation: 439 grid connections (222 operating, 2,210 MW), 391 power plants (107 operating, 4,000 MW), 11 data centers 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
Merrion House LLP grid connection	Grid connection	2 MW	Operating	0.3 km
Oil 1.125 MW grid connection at Upper Basinghall Street	Grid connection	1.13 MW	Planned	0.7 km
Waste 1.9 MW grid connection at Buslingthorpe Green	Grid connection	1.9 MW	Operating	1.1 km
Buslingthorpe Power Station (Leeds North)	Power plant	2 MW	Operating	1.1 km
Buslingthorpe Green - Battery Energy Storage	Power plant	49.9 MW	Permitted	1.2 km
Redcote Lane, Armley - Battery Storage Facility	Power plant	60 MW	Permitted	2.7 km
GridJet	Data center	—	—	3.1 km
nLighten Leeds	Data center	—	—	15 km
HSBC Wakefield Data Centre	Data center	—	—	16 km

Grid operator and place

Northern Powergrid (Yorkshire) plcGrid operator
Substations in England, United Kingdom1,666
Substations in the United Kingdom2,119
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Grid connections attached to this substation

Merrion House LLP grid connection2 MW

Candidate sites around this substation

1 site of land near Carlton Hill has it as nearest substation. Each site page gives its area, its distance to the substation and its site score; owners are on request.

27 ha site near Carlton Hill substation, Leeds0.09 km · score 35

Other substations in England

All 1666 substations in England, United Kingdom

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.
Supported by Northern Powergrid Open Data. Northern Powergrid open data portal, Northern Powergrid Open Data Licence v1.0.