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West Wickham 11kV Substation

West Wickham 11kV Substation is an 11 kV primary substation in England, United Kingdom, with 4.2 MVA of demand headroom and 25.2 MVA of generation headroom, operated by South Eastern Power Networks plc (UK Power Networks, South East England licence area).

Map: where West Wickham 11kV lies
51.3674, -0.0052 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 operatorSouth Eastern Power Networks plc (UK Power Networks, South East England licence area)UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Demand headroom4.2 MVAUK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Generation headroom25.2 MVAUK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Firm capacity23 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
Coordinates51.3674, -0.0052UK 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: 363 grid connections (251 operating, 2,387 MW), 359 power plants (136 operating, 6,007 MW), 136 data centers (1 operating, 88 MW), 1 transmission line and 1 AI supercomputer, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.

NameKindSizeStatusDistance
Layhams Road - Battery Storage FacilityPower plant250 MWPermitted3.3 km
Biggin Hill Airport (Kite Shed) grid connectionGrid connection1.1 MWOperating4.6 km
Biggin Hill Airport, Main Road - Solar PV ArrayPower plant12 MWUnder construction4.7 km
Selhurst Traincare Depot, Selhurst Road - Solar PanelsPower plant1 MWPermitted6.0 km
Bromley Hospital grid connectionGrid connection1.2 MWOperating6.6 km
Rolls Royce Power grid connectionGrid connection58 MWOperating7.5 km
Pulsant South LondonData center——8.1 km
Segro Croydon (Morgan Stanley)Data center——9.3 km
CapitalLand - CroydenData center——9.4 km

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