Substation · Scotland, United Kingdom
Abbeylands Road Substation
Abbeylands Road Substation is a 33 kV primary substation in Scotland, United Kingdom, with 7.73 MVA of demand headroom and 10.6 MVA of generation headroom, operated by SP Distribution plc (SP Energy Networks, South and Central Scotland 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Name in the source | ABBEYLANDS ROAD | SP Energy Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Location | Scotland | SP Energy Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Grid operator | SP Distribution plc (SP Energy Networks, South and Central Scotland licence area) | SP Energy Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Demand headroom | 7.73 MVA | SP Energy Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Generation headroom | 10.6 MVA | SP Energy Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Firm capacity | 10 MVA | SP Energy Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Level | Primary substation | SP Energy Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Voltage | 33 kV (levels 33, 11 kV) | SP Energy Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 55.9266, -4.3923 | SP Energy 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: 391 power plants (101 operating, 2,358 MW), 268 grid connections (141 operating, 1,648 MW) and 5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Braidfield Road, Hardgate - Battery Storage Facility | Power plant | 100 MW | Planned | 0.9 km |
| Whitehall Battery Storage | Power plant | 560 MW | Permitted | 1.3 km |
| Windyhill Battery Storage Facility | Power plant | 200 MW | Under construction | 1.5 km |
| Whitehill Estate grid connection | Grid connection | 70 MW | Planned | 1.6 km |
| North Clyde Recycling Centre (Resubmission) grid connection | Grid connection | 1.6 MW | Planned | 3.6 km |
| Thermo Fisher Diesel (Inchinnan Bus Park Gen/Life Technologies) Alternative Feed grid connection | Grid connection | 1.12 MW | Operating | 5.7 km |
| DataVita DV2 | Data center | — | — | 11 km |
| iomart Glasgow Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 11 km |
| Verizon Glasgow GLSGGB | Data center | — | — | 11 km |
Grid operator and place
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Candidate sites around this substation
1 site of land near Abbeylands Road has it as nearest substation. Each site page gives its area, its distance to the substation and its site score; owners are on request.
- 2.25 ha brownfield site at Langfaulds Bearsden, East Dunbartonshire1.38 km · score 17
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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.
- SP Energy Networks, via Northern Powergrid Open Data. SP Energy Networks open data portal, CC BY 4.0.