Substation · England, United Kingdom
Somerford Primary
Somerford Primary is a 33 kV primary substation in England, United Kingdom, with 6.72 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 | 6.72 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 20MVA | 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 | Mannington BSP | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Fed from | Christchurch BSP | 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 | 33 kV (levels 33, 11 kV) | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 50.7416, -1.7426 | 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: 221 power plants (100 operating, 946 MW), 176 grid connections (104 operating, 971 MW) and 7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christchurch Energy | Power plant | 18 MW | Operating | 1.6 km |
| Pratts Field PV grid connection | Grid connection | 2.85 MW | Operating | 2.0 km |
| Waterditch Solar Farm | Power plant | 18 MW | Operating | 2.0 km |
| Land Near Hawthorne Farmhouse grid connection | Grid connection | 48 MW | Planned | 2.4 km |
| Waterditch PV grid connection | Grid connection | 14.5 MW | Operating | 2.5 km |
| Waterditch Farm - Solar Farm & Battery Storage | Power plant | 49.9 MW | Planned | 2.5 km |
| Data Vault - Bournemouth BCP01 | Data center | — | — | 9.6 km |
| Sky Chilworth | Data center | — | — | 33 km |
| SCC | Data center | — | — | 38 km |
Grid operator and place
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Candidate sites around this substation
5 sites of land near Somerford 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.
- 217 ha site near Somerford Primary substation, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole0.66 km · score 57
- 154 ha site near Somerford Primary substation, New Forest1.71 km · score 41
- 32 ha site near Somerford Primary substation, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole0.37 km · score 39
- 61 ha site near Somerford Primary substation, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole1.87 km · score 25
- 55 ha site near Somerford Primary substation, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole1.88 km · score 23
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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.