Substation · England, United Kingdom

Frome Primary

Frome Primary is a 33 kV primary substation in England, United Kingdom, with 12.7 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	12.7 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 15 / 30MVA	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	Melksham GSP	SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Fed from	Frome 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 & 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	51.2312, -2.3043	SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026

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Nearby

Within 50 km of this substation: 408 power plants (180 operating, 1,898 MW), 159 grid connections (98 operating, 1,061 MW), 8 data centers, 2 transmission lines and 1 AI supercomputer, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.

Name	Kind	Size	Status	Distance
Frome Power grid connection	Grid connection	30 MW	Planned	0.1 km
Frome Power, Styles Close - Energy Storage Facility	Power plant	30 MW	Planned	0.3 km
Selwood Solar Farm	Power plant	6 MW	Cancelled	1.6 km
Unit A1 Marston Trading Estate grid connection	Grid connection	2.41 MW	Operating	1.7 km
Generation 60 MW grid connection at FROME	Grid connection	60 MW	Planned	1.8 km
Lodge Hill, Berkley - Solar Park	Power plant	14.5 MW	Permitted	2.7 km
Data center, England (OSM way 996865179)	Data center	—	—	22 km
Ark Data Centres	Data center	—	—	22 km
University of Bristol Isambard-AI	AI supercomputer	5,448 H100e	Operating	32 km

Grid operator and place

Southern Electric Power Distribution plcGrid operator
Substations in England, United Kingdom1,666
Substations in the United Kingdom2,119
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Grid connections attached to this substation

Unit A1 Marston Trading Estate grid connection2.41 MW

Candidate sites around this substation

6 sites of land near Frome Primary have it as nearest substation. Each site page gives its area, its distance to the substation and its site score; owners are on request.

38 ha site near Frome Primary substation, Somerset0.62 km · score 43
48 ha site near Frome Primary substation, Somerset1.44 km · score 34
59 ha site near Frome Primary substation, Somerset1.78 km · score 32
37 ha site near Frome Primary substation, Somerset1.39 km · score 32
41 ha site near Frome Primary substation, Somerset1.67 km · score 28
34 ha site near Frome Primary substation, Somerset1.9 km · score 23

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.
Epoch AI. Epoch AI supercomputers, CC BY 4.0.
SSEN Distribution. SSEN Distribution data portal, CC BY 4.0.