Substation · Scotland, United Kingdom
Byrehill Substation
Byrehill Substation is a 33 kV primary substation in Scotland, United Kingdom, with 17.1 MVA of demand headroom and 20.7 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 | BYREHILL | 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 | 17.1 MVA | SP Energy Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Generation headroom | 20.7 MVA | SP Energy Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Firm capacity | 24 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 | 55.6465, -4.7163 | 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: 327 power plants (67 operating, 2,351 MW), 179 grid connections (90 operating, 1,013 MW) and 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Castlehill Solar Farm | Power plant | 5 MW | Cancelled | 1.2 km |
| Ardeer | Power plant | 22 MW | Cancelled | 1.5 km |
| Lochcraigs Solar Park grid connection | Grid connection | 4.75 MW | Operating | 1.8 km |
| Ardeer Peninsula, Ardeer - Wind Turbines | Power plant | 9.6 MW | Permitted | 1.8 km |
| Nethermains PV grid connection | Grid connection | 6.69 MW | Operating | 2.1 km |
| Ardoch Farm BESS (Kilwinning BESS) grid connection | Grid connection | 30.4 MW | Planned | 3.0 km |
| iomart Glasgow Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 35 km |
| Verizon Glasgow GLSGGB | Data center | — | — | 37 km |
| DataVita DV2 | Data center | — | — | 37 km |
Grid operator and place
Grid connections attached to this substation
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Candidate sites around this substation
15 sites of land near Byrehill have it as nearest substation. Each site page gives its area, its distance to the substation and its site score; owners are on request.
- 332 ha brownfield site at Ardeer Stevenston, North Ayrshire2.04 km · score 47
- 2.26 ha brownfield site at West Byrehill Kilwinning, North Ayrshire0.15 km · score 45
- 1.76 ha brownfield site at Byrehill Avenue Kilwinning, North Ayrshire0.11 km · score 45
- 6.32 ha brownfield site at West Byrehill Kilwinning, North Ayrshire0.31 km · score 43
- 1.89 ha brownfield site at Byrehill Place Kilwinning, North Ayrshire0.55 km · score 39
- 1.27 ha brownfield site at West Byrehill Kilwinning, North Ayrshire0.54 km · score 39
- 1.73 ha brownfield site at Byrehill Place Kilwinning, North Ayrshire0.69 km · score 37
- 1.73 ha brownfield site at West Byrehill Kilwinning, North Ayrshire0.71 km · score 36
- 1.71 ha brownfield site at Nethermains I.E. Kilwinning, North Ayrshire1.12 km · score 30
- 33 ha brownfield site at Ardeer Stevenston, North Ayrshire2.29 km · score 25
- 4.02 ha brownfield site at Nethermains Road Kilwinning, North Ayrshire1.5 km · score 25
- 1.51 ha brownfield site at Edison Place Kilwinning, North Ayrshire1.46 km · score 25
Other substations in Scotland
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.