Substation · Scotland, United Kingdom
Fauldhead Substation
Fauldhead Substation is a 33 kV primary substation in Scotland, United Kingdom, with 5.71 MVA of demand headroom and 9.39 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 | FAULDHEAD | 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 | 5.71 MVA | SP Energy Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Generation headroom | 9.39 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 | 55.3903, -4.0055 | 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: 362 power plants (86 operating, 3,946 MW), 127 grid connections (70 operating, 885 MW) and 2 data centers, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 8, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glenmuckloch Pumped Storage Hydro | Power plant | 400 MW | Permitted | 0.4 km |
| Lagrae Battery Energy Storage System | Power plant | 400 MW | Planned | 2.6 km |
| Glenmuckloch Hill Wind Farm, Kirkconnel - Wind Turbines | Power plant | 33.6 MW | Planned | 2.7 km |
| Sunnyside Wind grid connection | Grid connection | 1 MW | Operating | 3.9 km |
| Harehill Extn Windfarm grid connection | Grid connection | 29.8 MW | Operating | 8.0 km |
| Harehill Windfarm grid connection | Grid connection | 19.6 MW | Operating | 8.0 km |
| Asanti Hamilton | Data center | — | — | 44 km |
| DataVita DV1 | Data center | — | — | 49 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 Fauldhead have it as nearest substation. Each site page gives its area, its distance to the substation and its site score; owners are on request.
- 9.23 ha brownfield site at Fauldhead Kirkconnel, Dumfries and Galloway0.45 km · score 30
- 11 ha brownfield site at Sanquhar, Dumfries and Galloway3.82 km · score 8
- 3.66 ha brownfield site at Sanquhar, Dumfries and Galloway3.66 km · score 6
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.