Substation · Scotland, United Kingdom
Coats Street Substation
Coats Street Substation is a 33 kV primary substation in Scotland, United Kingdom, with 6.54 MVA of demand headroom and 23.8 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 | COATS STREET | 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 | 6.54 MVA | SP Energy Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Generation headroom | 23.8 MVA | SP Energy Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Firm capacity | 21 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 | 55.8619, -4.0193 | 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: 464 power plants (116 operating, 2,890 MW), 300 grid connections (155 operating, 1,815 MW) and 12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burnbank Coatbridge BESS grid connection | Grid connection | 30.8 MW | Planned | 1.0 km |
| Burnbank Street, Greenhill - Battery Storage Facility | Power plant | 30 MW | Permitted | 1.1 km |
| Locks Street, Coatdyke - Battery Energy Storage Systems | Power plant | 45 MW | Planned | 1.1 km |
| AGS Coatbridge BESS grid connection | Grid connection | 60 MW | Planned | 1.6 km |
| Coatbridge Material Recovery and Renewable Energy Facility | Power plant | 25 MW | Under construction | 2.4 km |
| Coatbridge Material Recovery And Renewable Energy Facility grid connection | Grid connection | 25 MW | Planned | 2.4 km |
| DataVita DV1 | Data center | — | — | 5.2 km |
| Asanti Hamilton | Data center | — | — | 10 km |
| DataVita DV2 | Data center | — | — | 15 km |
Grid operator and place
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Candidate sites around this substation
5 sites of land near Coats Street have it as nearest substation. Each site page gives its area, its distance to the substation and its site score; owners are on request.
- 1.29 ha brownfield site at Dunbeth Road Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire0.26 km · score 33
- 2.74 ha brownfield site at Burnbank Street Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire1.06 km · score 21
- 1.48 ha brownfield site at Burleigh Place Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire1.71 km · score 11
- 12 ha brownfield site at A8 Shawhead Eastbound Slip Roads Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire1.94 km · score 10
- 3.1 ha brownfield site at A8 Edinburgh Road Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire2.33 km · score 7
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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.