Substation · Scotland, United Kingdom
Inverurie Primary Substation
Inverurie Primary Substation is a 33 kV primary substation in Scotland, United Kingdom, with 12.2 MVA of demand headroom and 0 MW of generation headroom, operated by Scottish Hydro Electric.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Location | Scotland | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Grid operator | Scottish Hydro Electric | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Demand headroom | 12.2 MVA | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Generation headroom | 0 MW | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Transformers | 1 x 7.5 / 15MVA + 2 x 14 / 17MVA | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Level | Primary substation | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Fed from | Kintore GSP | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Congestion (offtake) | None (green on the heat map) | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Congestion (feed-in) | Full (red on the heat map, limited by upstream thermal capacity) | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Voltage | 33 kV (levels 33, 11 kV) | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 57.2852, -2.4053 | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 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.
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Within 50 km of this substation: 256 power plants (81 operating, 2,082 MW), 156 grid connections (67 operating, 503 MW) and 1 data center, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 7, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cairncake | Power plant | 4.6 MW | Cancelled | 2.0 km |
| Castle of Auchry Farm | Power plant | 2.4 MW | Operating | 2.4 km |
| Thainstone Energy Park ERF grid connection | Grid connection | 55 MW | Planned | 3.6 km |
| Thainstone Energy Park Project ERF | Power plant | 35 MW | Cancelled | 3.9 km |
| Thainstone Solar grid connection | Grid connection | 20 MW | Planned | 4.0 km |
| Kintore BESS grid connection | Grid connection | 49.9 MW | Planned | 7.8 km |
| Brightsolid | Data center | — | — | 21 km |
Grid operator and place
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Candidate sites around this substation
3 sites of land near Inverurie Primary have it as nearest substation. Each site page gives its area, its distance to the substation and its site score; owners are on request.
- 1.62 ha brownfield site at Gordon House Blackhall Road Inverurie, Aberdeenshire1.17 km · score 25
- 1.2 ha brownfield site at Harlaw Road Inverurie, Aberdeenshire1.75 km · score 16
- 1.07 ha brownfield site at St Andrews Gardens Inverurie, Aberdeenshire1.99 km · score 12
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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.
- SSEN Distribution. SSEN Distribution data portal, CC BY 4.0.