Substation · England, United Kingdom

Townley St Substation

Townley St Substation is a substation in England, United Kingdom.

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Facts

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Fact	Value	Source
Name in the source	TOWNLEY ST	SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Location	Available on request	SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Grid operator	Available on request	SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Demand headroom	Available on request	SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Generation headroom	Available on request	SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Level	Available on request	SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Fed from	Available on request	SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Voltage	Available on request	SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Coordinates	53.5510, -2.1911	SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026

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Nearby

Within 50 km of this substation: 429 grid connections (240 operating, 2,180 MW), 369 power plants (107 operating, 2,803 MW), 20 data centers and 3 gas storage facilities, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.

Name	Kind	Size	Status	Distance
Whitbrook Power grid connection	Grid connection	5.07 MW	Operating	0.2 km
Robert McBride Ltd	Power plant	1.3 MW	Cancelled	0.7 km
Tesco Distribution Centre, Stakehill Industrial Estate - Solar Panels	Power plant	1 MW	Permitted	2.1 km
Middleton Flexible Gas grid connection	Grid connection	9.05 MW	Planned	2.3 km
Gateway Crescent (Shaw) grid connection	Grid connection	20 MW	Operating	2.7 km
Whitegate Battery Storage	Power plant	57 MW	Under construction	2.7 km
Asanti Manchester	Data center	—	—	8.6 km
Evolution @ Agecroft Commerce Park	Data center	—	—	8.9 km
Data center, England (OSM way 703959498)	Data center	—	—	9.2 km

Place

Grid connections attached to this substation

Whitbrook Power grid connection5.07 MW

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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.
SP Electricity North West, via Northern Powergrid Open Data. SP Electricity North West open data portal, CC BY 4.0.