Substation · England, United Kingdom
Fulbourn Grid 33kV Substation
Fulbourn Grid 33kV Substation is a 33 kV primary substation in England, United Kingdom, with 18.5 MVA of demand headroom and 97.8 MVA of generation headroom, operated by Eastern Power Networks plc (UK Power Networks, East England licence area).
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 | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Grid operator | Eastern 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 headroom | 18.5 MVA | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Generation headroom | 97.8 MVA | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Firm capacity | 114 MVA | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Level | Primary substation | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Voltage | 33 kV | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 52.1884, 0.1876 | UK 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: 317 power plants (139 operating, 3,157 MW), 259 grid connections (168 operating, 1,880 MW), 8 data centers, 1 AI supercomputer and 1 transmission line, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Bedes Inter-Church School | Power plant | 1 MW | Permitted | 1.5 km |
| Low Fen, Drove Way - Solar Farm | Power plant | 50 MW | Planned | 3.6 km |
| (ANM) Low Fen Drove Way grid connection | Grid connection | 49.9 MW | Planned | 4.3 km |
| Land At Shardelowes Farm grid connection | Grid connection | 30 MW | Planned | 4.4 km |
| Great Willbrahams Farms grid connection | Grid connection | 30 MW | Operating | 5.1 km |
| Redcentric Cambridge | Data center | — | — | 5.3 km |
| Sawston Solar Farm (Land North of Dales Manor Business Park) | Power plant | 14 MW | Cancelled | 5.8 km |
| West Cambridge Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 7.7 km |
| US Air Force data center, Brandon | Data center | — | — | 34 km |
Grid operator and place
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Candidate sites around this substation
4 sites of land near Fulbourn Grid 33kV have it as nearest substation. Each site page gives its area, its distance to the substation and its site score; owners are on request.
- 27 ha brownfield site at Fulbourn & Ida Darwin Hospitals, Fulbourn Old Drift, Cambridgeshire, South Cambridgeshire0.38 km · score 49
- 27 ha brownfield site at Ida Darwin Hospital, Fulbourn Old Drift, Fulbourn, South Cambridgeshire0.94 km · score 41
- 32 ha brownfield site at Cambridge East Land North of Cherry Hinton1.29 km · score 37
- 13 ha brownfield site at Ida Darwin Hospital, Fulbourn Old Drift, Fulbourn, South Cambridgeshire0.93 km · score 37
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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.
- UK Power Networks. UK Power Networks open data portal, CC BY 4.0.