Substation · Scotland, United Kingdom
Drumchapel Road Substation
Drumchapel Road Substation is a 33 kV primary substation in Scotland, United Kingdom, with 14.5 MVA of demand headroom and 22.6 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 | DRUMCHAPEL 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 | 14.5 MVA | SP Energy Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Generation headroom | 22.6 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 | 55.9064, -4.3542 | 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: 412 power plants (107 operating, 2,566 MW), 280 grid connections (149 operating, 1,757 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Clyde Recycling Centre (Resubmission) grid connection | Grid connection | 1.6 MW | Planned | 2.7 km |
| Windyhill Battery Storage Facility | Power plant | 200 MW | Under construction | 2.9 km |
| Rothesay Dock Plastic to Hydrogen Recycling Facility | Power plant | 3.8 MW | Cancelled | 3.0 km |
| Cleveden Road BESS grid connection | Grid connection | 50.4 MW | Planned | 3.1 km |
| Braidfield Road, Hardgate - Battery Storage Facility | Power plant | 100 MW | Planned | 3.3 km |
| Glasgow BESS (South Street BESS) grid connection | Grid connection | 64 MW | Planned | 3.6 km |
| DataVita DV2 | Data center | — | — | 7.5 km |
| Verizon Glasgow GLSGGB | Data center | — | — | 7.5 km |
| iomart Glasgow Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 7.6 km |
Grid operator and place
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Candidate sites around this substation
10 sites of land near Drumchapel Road have it as nearest substation. Each site page gives its area, its distance to the substation and its site score; owners are on request.
- 1.68 ha brownfield site at Cloan Avenue, Glasgow City0.45 km · score 38
- 1.15 ha brownfield site at Duntreath Avenue Garscadden Road., Glasgow City0.68 km · score 34
- 2.32 ha brownfield site at Linkwood Drive, Glasgow City0.79 km · score 33
- 1.56 ha brownfield site at Kinclaven Avenue Blackcraig Ave Linkwood Dr., Glasgow City0.91 km · score 31
- 7.12 ha brownfield site at Former St Pius X School & Housing, Glasgow City1.1 km · score 29
- 1.17 ha brownfield site at 505 Kinfauns Drive, Glasgow City1.13 km · score 28
- 1.01 ha brownfield site at Kinfauns Drive / 136-141 Summerhill RD, Glasgow City1.17 km · score 27
- 1.2 ha brownfield site at Drummore RD Summerhill RD Saddell RD, Glasgow City1.36 km · score 24
- 1.71 ha brownfield site at Drummore Road, Glasgow City1.44 km · score 23
- 1.51 ha brownfield site at 25-57 Drummore Road, Glasgow City1.45 km · score 23
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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.