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Substation · England, United Kingdom

Saffron Walden Primary 11kV Substation

Saffron Walden Primary 11kV Substation is an 11 kV primary substation in England, United Kingdom, with 2.3 MVA of demand headroom and 23.3 MVA of generation headroom, operated by Eastern Power Networks plc (UK Power Networks, East England licence area).

Map: where Saffron Walden Primary 11kV lies
52.0184, 0.2522 on OpenStreetMap

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.

FactValueSource
LocationEnglandUK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Grid operatorEastern 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 headroom2.3 MVAUK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Generation headroom23.3 MVAUK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Firm capacity22.3 MVAUK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
LevelPrimary substationUK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Voltage11 kVUK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Coordinates52.0184, 0.2522UK 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: 316 power plants (126 operating, 3,621 MW), 264 grid connections (167 operating, 2,025 MW), 14 data centers (1 operating, 88 MW), 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.

NameKindSizeStatusDistance
Acrows Energy Park grid connectionGrid connection4.94 MWPlanned0.8 km
Long Meadow Solar FarmPower plant19 MWOperating2.8 km
Purton End grid connectionGrid connection12 MWOperating3.2 km
Butlers FarmPower plant7.7 MWCancelled3.2 km
(ANM) Long Meadow Solar Farm grid connectionGrid connection12 MWPlanned3.4 km
Chesterford Park - Green Energy HubPower plant2.8 MWCancelled4.8 km
West Cambridge Data CentreData center——24 km
Redcentric CambridgeData center——25 km
Kao Data KLON-02Data center——29 km

Grid operator and place

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Candidate sites around this substation

1 site of land near Saffron Walden Primary 11kV has it as nearest substation. Each site page gives its area, its distance to the substation and its site score; owners are on request.

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