Substation · England, United Kingdom
Elms Road Primary
Elms Road Primary is a 33 kV primary substation in England, United Kingdom, with 4.22 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 | 4.22 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 15 / 24.5MVA | 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 | Fleet-Bramley GSP | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Fed from | Wokingham BSP | 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 | 51.4100, -0.8359 | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
Research on this substation and its grid operator.Who owns it up to the parent company, its headroom, congestion and the land around it, and an introduction to the grid operator.
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Within 50 km of this substation: 274 power plants (94 operating, 1,289 MW), 166 grid connections (83 operating, 928 MW) and 105 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barkham Farms - Solar Farm | Power plant | 33 MW | Permitted | 3.3 km |
| Barkham PV Farm grid connection | Grid connection | 20 MW | Planned | 3.4 km |
| AWS Bracknell Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 3.8 km |
| Amazon Web Services | Data center | — | — | 3.8 km |
| Solar 20 MW grid connection at Twyford | Grid connection | 20 MW | Planned | 4.4 km |
| Keppel Data Centres (Vodafone) - London | Data center | — | — | 4.5 km |
| Generation 19 MW grid connection at Western Road Generation | Grid connection | 19 MW | Operating | 4.8 km |
| Rushy Mead (University of Reading) | Power plant | 12 MW | Cancelled | 5.8 km |
| Bracknell Forest Biomass Centre | Power plant | 1.1 MW | Cancelled | 5.9 km |
Grid operator and place
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Candidate sites around this substation
1 site of land near Elms Road Primary has it as nearest substation. Each site page gives its area, its distance to the substation and its site score; owners are on request.
- 31 ha site near Elms Road Primary substation, Wokingham1.21 km · score 24
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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.