Substation · England, United Kingdom
Hungerford Primary
Hungerford Primary is a 33 kV primary substation in England, United Kingdom, with 3.85 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 | 3.85 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 10MVA | 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 | Bramley (Ames-That) GSP | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Fed from | Thatcham BSP | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Planned reinforcement | Replace both transformers with 7.5 / 15MVA units (due Aug 2026) | 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 | 51.4186, -1.5115 | 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: 353 power plants (138 operating, 2,292 MW), 293 grid connections (155 operating, 1,793 MW) and 18 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hungerford Park - Solar Array | Power plant | 2.5 MW | Permitted | 2.1 km |
| Rudge Farm Solar Farm | Power plant | 7 MW | Operating | 6.4 km |
| Rudge Photovoltaic Plant grid connection | Grid connection | 5.36 MW | Operating | 6.6 km |
| Membury | Power plant | 2 MW | Cancelled | 7.7 km |
| Membury PV grid connection | Grid connection | 13.3 MW | Operating | 8.3 km |
| Faccombe Estate grid connection | Grid connection | 2.43 MW | Planned | 12 km |
| Venture West | Data center | — | — | 16 km |
| AWS Swindon Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 21 km |
| R89 | Data center | — | — | 22 km |
Grid operator and place
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Candidate sites around this substation
18 sites of land near Hungerford 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.
- 442 ha site near Hungerford Primary substation, West Berkshire0.34 km · score 59
- 75 ha site near Hungerford Primary substation, West Berkshire0.58 km · score 46
- 132 ha site near Hungerford Primary substation, West Berkshire1.37 km · score 43
- 111 ha site near Hungerford Primary substation, West Berkshire1.51 km · score 41
- 81 ha site near Hungerford Primary substation, West Berkshire1.14 km · score 40
- 96 ha site near Hungerford Primary substation, West Berkshire1.46 km · score 39
- 216 ha site near Hungerford Primary substation, West Berkshire1.81 km · score 37
- 178 ha site near Hungerford Primary substation, West Berkshire1.85 km · score 36
- 53 ha site near Hungerford Primary substation, Wiltshire0.8 km · score 36
- 83 ha site near Hungerford Primary substation, West Berkshire1.57 km · score 34
- 36 ha site near Hungerford Primary substation, West Berkshire0.61 km · score 34
- 32 ha site near Hungerford Primary substation, West Berkshire0.5 km · score 34
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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.