Substation · Scotland, United Kingdom
Douglas West Substation
Douglas West Substation is a 33 kV primary substation in Scotland, United Kingdom, with 15.4 MVA of demand headroom and 22.4 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 | DOUGLAS WEST | 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 | 15.4 MVA | SP Energy Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Generation headroom | 22.4 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 | 55.5580, -3.8719 | 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: 442 power plants (110 operating, 3,998 MW), 215 grid connections (116 operating, 1,357 MW) and 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hagshaw Energy Cluster – Western Expansion | Power plant | 225 MW | Planned | 0.3 km |
| Hagshaw Energy Cluster – Western Expansion | Power plant | 130 MW | Planned | 0.3 km |
| Hagshaw Energy Cluster – Western Expansion | Power plant | 60 MW | Planned | 0.3 km |
| Hagshaw Hill Extn Windfarm grid connection | Grid connection | 26 MW | Operating | 0.3 km |
| Hagshaw Hill Windfarm grid connection | Grid connection | 15.6 MW | Planned | 0.3 km |
| Hazelside Windfarm grid connection | Grid connection | 1.6 MW | Planned | 0.6 km |
| Asanti Hamilton | Data center | — | — | 29 km |
| DataVita DV1 | Data center | — | — | 31 km |
| iomart Glasgow Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 42 km |
Grid operator and place
Grid connections attached to this substation
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Candidate sites around this substation
3 sites of land near Douglas West have it as nearest substation. Each site page gives its area, its distance to the substation and its site score; owners are on request.
- 7.42 ha brownfield site at East Coalburn Coalburn, South Lanarkshire4.18 km · score 16
- 2.13 ha brownfield site at Braehead Place Coalburn, South Lanarkshire3.62 km · score 15
- 1.42 ha brownfield site at Middlemuir Road Coalburn, South Lanarkshire3.53 km · score 15
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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.