Substation · Scotland, United Kingdom
Glasgow Airport Substation
Glasgow Airport Substation is a 33 kV primary substation in Scotland, United Kingdom, with 11.2 MVA of demand headroom and 17.7 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 | GLASGOW AIRPORT | 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 | 11.2 MVA | SP Energy Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Generation headroom | 17.7 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 | 55.8611, -4.4412 | 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: 401 power plants (103 operating, 2,460 MW), 263 grid connections (137 operating, 1,563 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linwood WWTW grid connection | Grid connection | 1.2 MW | Operating | 1.0 km |
| Glasgow Airport Solar Farm | Power plant | 19.9 MW | Under construction | 1.1 km |
| Well Street BESS, Paisley grid connection | Grid connection | 50 MW | Planned | 1.3 km |
| Laigh Park Water Treatment Works - Battery Energy Storage System | Power plant | 49.5 MW | Planned | 1.4 km |
| Abercorn Street Gas grid connection | Grid connection | 22.5 MW | Operating | 1.5 km |
| Well Street - Battery Storage | Power plant | 49.5 MW | Cancelled | 1.6 km |
| iomart Glasgow Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 9.9 km |
| Verizon Glasgow GLSGGB | Data center | — | — | 11 km |
| DataVita DV2 | Data center | — | — | 11 km |
Grid operator and place
Grid connections attached to this substation
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Candidate sites around this substation
6 sites of land near Glasgow Airport 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 Greenock Road (St James INT) Paisley (North), Renfrewshire0.5 km · score 34
- 6.25 ha brownfield site at Stirrat Street (West) Paisley (Ferguslie), Renfrewshire0.71 km · score 31
- 1.15 ha brownfield site at Burnside Place Paisley (Ferguslie), Renfrewshire0.69 km · score 31
- 4.26 ha brownfield site at Ferguslie Park Avenue (North) Paisley (Ferguslie), Renfrewshire0.83 km · score 29
- 5.1 ha brownfield site at Linwood Road, Phoenix (North) Linwood (Phoenix), Renfrewshire1.8 km · score 14
- 11 ha brownfield site at Pegasus Avenue Linwood (Phoenix), Renfrewshire1.99 km · score 13
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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.