Substation · Scotland, United Kingdom
Hecla Avenue Substation
Hecla Avenue Substation is a 33 kV primary substation in Scotland, United Kingdom, with 15.7 MVA of demand headroom and 22.3 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 | HECLA AVENUE | 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 | 15.7 MVA | SP Energy Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Generation headroom | 22.3 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 | 55.9104, -4.3750 | 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: 399 power plants (103 operating, 2,441 MW), 269 grid connections (141 operating, 1,654 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Braidfield Road, Hardgate - Battery Storage Facility | Power plant | 100 MW | Planned | 2.0 km |
| North Clyde Recycling Centre (Resubmission) grid connection | Grid connection | 1.6 MW | Planned | 2.1 km |
| Rothesay Dock Plastic to Hydrogen Recycling Facility | Power plant | 3.8 MW | Cancelled | 2.1 km |
| Windyhill Battery Storage Facility | Power plant | 200 MW | Under construction | 2.3 km |
| Whitehill Estate grid connection | Grid connection | 70 MW | Planned | 3.3 km |
| Cleveden Road BESS grid connection | Grid connection | 50.4 MW | Planned | 4.5 km |
| iomart Glasgow Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 8.7 km |
| DataVita DV2 | Data center | — | — | 8.8 km |
| Verizon Glasgow GLSGGB | Data center | — | — | 8.8 km |
Grid operator and place
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Candidate sites around this substation
11 sites of land near Hecla Avenue have it as nearest substation. Each site page gives its area, its distance to the substation and its site score; owners are on request.
- 1.93 ha brownfield site at Drumry Road East Dunkenny Road / Abbotshall AV, Glasgow City0.03 km · score 45
- 1.62 ha brownfield site at 15 Linkwood Crescent, Glasgow City0.58 km · score 37
- 1.02 ha brownfield site at Garscadden Road., Glasgow City0.61 km · score 37
- 2.09 ha brownfield site at Katewell Avenue, Glasgow City0.85 km · score 33
- 1.5 ha brownfield site at 12 Lochgoin Avenue, Glasgow City0.83 km · score 33
- 3.5 ha brownfield site at Kinfauns Drive/ Airgold Drive., Glasgow City0.92 km · score 32
- 1.24 ha brownfield site at Barnkirk Avenue/ Blackcraig Ave., Glasgow City0.93 km · score 32
- 1.32 ha brownfield site at Barnkirk Avenue/ Blackcraig Ave/ Kinfauns Dr., Glasgow City1.03 km · score 30
- 1.26 ha brownfield site at Lillyburn Place, Glasgow City1.05 km · score 30
- 1.07 ha brownfield site at East of Lochgoin Avenue., Glasgow City1.05 km · score 30
- 2.65 ha brownfield site at Stanford Street Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire1.24 km · score 27
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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.