Substation · England, United Kingdom
Manchester Road Primary Substation
Manchester Road Primary Substation is a 33 kV primary substation in England, United Kingdom, with 30 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 | 30 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 | Swindon BSP | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Fed from | Minety GSP | 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 & upstream fault level constraint) | 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 | 51.5648, -1.7813 | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 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.
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Within 50 km of this substation: 350 power plants (135 operating, 3,811 MW), 222 grid connections (125 operating, 1,364 MW), 10 data centers 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Swindon Sewerage Treatment Works | Power plant | 1.2 MW | Operating | 1.7 km |
| Solar 2.375 MW grid connection at Swindon | Grid connection | 2.38 MW | Operating | 1.8 km |
| Unit O, Penzance Drive - Solar Panels | Power plant | 1.96 MW | Permitted | 1.9 km |
| Cheney Manor EfW | Power plant | 2 MW | Cancelled | 2.3 km |
| Generation 11.4 MW grid connection at Minety GSP | Grid connection | 11.4 MW | Operating | 2.4 km |
| Mannington Battery grid connection | Grid connection | 5 MW | Planned | 2.8 km |
| Nationwide Swindon Technology Centre | Data center | — | — | 3.9 km |
| AWS Swindon Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 4.7 km |
| Vodafone | Data center | — | — | 4.8 km |
Grid operator and place
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Candidate sites around this substation
8 sites of land near Manchester Road 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.
- 4.34 ha brownfield site at Kimmerfields (remainder), Swindon0.14 km · score 58
- 2.05 ha brownfield site at Crown Timber Site Unit A Thornhill Industrial Estate South Marston…, Swindon0.11 km · score 58
- 1.84 ha brownfield site at Swindon Station Car Park (South)0.32 km · score 55
- 5.09 ha brownfield site at Thornhill Industrial Estate, Swindon0.37 km · score 54
- 1.52 ha brownfield site at The Carriage Works, Swindon0.43 km · score 54
- 1.42 ha brownfield site at Toothill Village Centre, Swindon0.49 km · score 53
- 1.17 ha brownfield site at Former Zarlink Factory, Darby Close, Swindon0.55 km · score 52
- 5.16 ha brownfield site at North of Gateway North, Swindon0.66 km · score 50
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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.