Substation · England, United Kingdom
Poole (Hamworthy) BSP
Poole (Hamworthy) BSP is a substation in England, United Kingdom, 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 | 23 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 30 / 60MVA | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Level | Bsp | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Fed from | Mannington 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) | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Voltage | 132 kV (levels 132, 33 kV) | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 50.7167, -1.9985 | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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Nearby
Within 50 km of this substation: 190 power plants (90 operating, 739 MW), 153 grid connections (94 operating, 772 MW) and 2 data centers, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 8, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Holes Bay Battery Storage grid connection | Grid connection | 7.13 MW | Operating | 1.1 km |
| Holes Bay | Power plant | 15 MW | Operating | 1.3 km |
| Post Farm, Lytchett Minster - Battery Energy Storage | Power plant | 32 MW | Permitted | 4.2 km |
| Land on the West Side of Blandford Road - Battery grid connection | Grid connection | 25 MW | Operating | 4.3 km |
| Beacon Hill | Power plant | 3 MW | Operating | 4.7 km |
| Lytchett Solar Farm grid connection | Grid connection | 64 MW | Planned | 5.2 km |
| Data Vault - Bournemouth BCP01 | Data center | — | — | 8.7 km |
| Sky Chilworth | Data center | — | — | 48 km |
Grid operator and place
Upstream substation
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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.
- © OpenStreetMap contributors. OpenStreetMap data centers, ODbL 1.0.
- SSEN Distribution. SSEN Distribution data portal, CC BY 4.0.