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Substation · England, United Kingdom

Crowlands Grid 33kV Substation

Crowlands Grid 33kV Substation is a 33 kV primary substation in England, United Kingdom, with 48.4 MVA of demand headroom and 111 MVA of generation headroom, operated by Eastern Power Networks plc (UK Power Networks, East England licence area).

Map: where Crowlands Grid 33kV lies
51.5700, 0.1576 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.

FactValueSource
LocationEnglandUK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Grid operatorEastern 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 headroom48.4 MVAUK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Generation headroom111 MVAUK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Firm capacity114 MVAUK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
LevelPrimary substationUK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Voltage33 kVUK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Coordinates51.5700, 0.1576UK 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: 413 grid connections (282 operating, 3,022 MW), 408 power plants (148 operating, 7,741 MW), 100 data centers (1 operating, 88 MW), 1 transmission line and 1 AI supercomputer, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.

NameKindSizeStatusDistance
NTT London 1Data center——2.8 km
Goodmayes Hospital grid connectionGrid connection1.02 MWOperating3.6 km
Chequers LanePower plant2.5 MWCancelled4.0 km
Ford Motor Company Ltd (Extension)Power plant2 MWOperating4.6 km
Gallions Power grid connectionGrid connection5 MWOperating4.9 km
Dagenham Docks Biogas (Waste AD)Power plant1.4 MWOperating5.2 km
Tesco Distribution Centre grid connectionGrid connection1.2 MWOperating5.4 km
OVH data center, EnglandData center——8.7 km
Virtual Internet UKData center——11 km

Grid operator and place

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Candidate sites around this substation

1 site of land near Crowlands Grid 33kV has it as nearest substation. Each site page gives its area, its distance to the substation and its site score; owners are on request.

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