Substation · England, United Kingdom

Failsworth

Failsworth is a substation in England, United Kingdom.

We hold more on this asset.Demand headroom, generation headroom, grid operator, location, level, fed from and voltage: available on request.

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Facts

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Fact	Value	Source
Name in the source	FAILSWORTH	SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Location	Available on request	SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Grid operator	Available on request	SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Demand headroom	Available on request	SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Generation headroom	Available on request	SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Level	Available on request	SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Fed from	Available on request	SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Voltage	Available on request	SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Coordinates	53.5109, -2.1549	SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026

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Nearby

Within 50 km of this substation: 428 grid connections (240 operating, 2,189 MW), 367 power plants (100 operating, 942 MW), 22 data centers and 3 gas storage facilities, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.

Name	Kind	Size	Status	Distance
Scholes Power grid connection	Grid connection	4.56 MW	Planned	0.9 km
Mirror Group Newspapers grid connection	Grid connection	1.75 MW	Operating	1.3 km
Reliance Street grid connection	Grid connection	2.1 MW	Operating	1.5 km
Reliance Street Mechanical Biological Treatment Facility (MBT)	Power plant	2 MW	Operating	1.6 km
Medlock Road, Failsworth - Battery Energy Storage	Power plant	30 MW	Permitted	1.7 km
Chadderton - Battery energy storage facility	Power plant	20 MW	Under construction	2.4 km
Data center, England (OSM way 703959498)	Data center	—	—	4.9 km
Asanti Manchester	Data center	—	—	6.6 km
Equinix MA1	Data center	—	—	7.5 km

Place

Grid connections attached to this substation

Reliance Street grid connection2.1 MW

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Data on this page

DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD). DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD), Open Government Licence v3.0.
SP Electricity North West, via Northern Powergrid Open Data. SP Electricity North West open data portal, CC BY 4.0.