Substation · England, United Kingdom
Cowley Local Primary Substation
Cowley Local Primary Substation is a 33 kV primary substation in England, United Kingdom, with 0 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 | 0 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 | 3 x 7.5 / 15MVA | 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 GSP | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Fed from | Cowley Local (Main) BSP | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Planned reinforcement | Replace both transformers with 20 / 40MVA units (due Oct 2026) | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Congestion (offtake) | Full (red on the heat map, limited by substation thermal capacity) | 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 & substation fault level) | 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 | 51.7236, -1.1890 | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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Within 50 km of this substation: 335 power plants (118 operating, 3,400 MW), 188 grid connections (94 operating, 1,101 MW) and 62 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unipart Group of Companies grid connection | Grid connection | 2.4 MW | Planned | 0.7 km |
| Unipart Group of Companies grid connection | Grid connection | 4.95 MW | Planned | 0.7 km |
| Cowley electricity sub-station | Power plant | 49.9 MW | Operating | 0.7 km |
| BMW UK Manufacturing Ltd | Power plant | 3 MW | Operating | 1.1 km |
| 99.9MW BESS - Near Cowley grid connection | Grid connection | 119 MW | Planned | 1.2 km |
| Lower road, Garsington - Energy Storage System | Power plant | 100 MW | Cancelled | 1.9 km |
| University Shared Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 5.9 km |
| AWS Didcot Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 13 km |
| R89 | Data center | — | — | 19 km |
Grid operator and place
Grid connections attached to this substation
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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.
- © OpenStreetMap contributors. OpenStreetMap data centers, ODbL 1.0.
- SSEN Distribution. SSEN Distribution data portal, CC BY 4.0.