Substation · England, United Kingdom
Stansted Airport Main Pr 11kV Substation
Stansted Airport Main Pr 11kV Substation is an 11 kV primary substation in England, United Kingdom, with 12.6 MVA of demand headroom and 3.4 MVA of generation headroom, operated by Eastern Power Networks plc (UK Power Networks, East England licence area).
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 | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Grid operator | Eastern 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 headroom | 12.6 MVA | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Generation headroom | 3.4 MVA | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Firm capacity | 24 MVA | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Level | Primary substation | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Voltage | 11 kV | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 51.8874, 0.2306 | UK 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: 412 power plants (164 operating, 5,733 MW), 370 grid connections (248 operating, 2,830 MW), 58 data centers (1 operating, 88 MW), 2 transmission lines 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (ANM) Land At Warmans Farm grid connection | Grid connection | 6 MW | Planned | 0.5 km |
| West Mill | Power plant | 2.5 MW | Operating | 1.1 km |
| Parsonage Farm - Solar PV Farm & Battery Storage | Power plant | 30 MW | Permitted | 1.9 km |
| Tye Green Farm | Power plant | 14.9 MW | Cancelled | 2.2 km |
| Elsenham Landfill grid connection | Grid connection | 1 MW | Operating | 3.6 km |
| Lister Hospital grid connection | Grid connection | 4.5 MW | Operating | 4.3 km |
| NVIDIA Cambridge-1 | AI supercomputer | 202 H100e | Operating | 15 km |
| Kao Data KLON-02 | Data center | — | — | 15 km |
| Kao Data KLON-01 | Data center | — | — | 15 km |
Grid operator and place
Grid connections attached to this substation
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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.
- Epoch AI. Epoch AI supercomputers, CC BY 4.0.
- © OpenStreetMap contributors. OpenStreetMap data centers, ODbL 1.0.
- UK Power Networks. UK Power Networks open data portal, CC BY 4.0.