Substation · Scotland, United Kingdom
Lanark Substation
Lanark Substation is a 33 kV primary substation in Scotland, United Kingdom, with 17.3 MVA of demand headroom and 25.7 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 | LANARK | 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 | 17.3 MVA | SP Energy Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Generation headroom | 25.7 MVA | SP Energy Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Firm capacity | 24 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 | 55.6700, -3.7589 | 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: 440 power plants (112 operating, 3,488 MW), 256 grid connections (133 operating, 1,476 MW) and 13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bonnington Power Station grid connection | Grid connection | 11 MW | Operating | 1.7 km |
| Stonebyres Power Station grid connection | Grid connection | 6 MW | Operating | 4.4 km |
| Cartland Muir Wind Farm | Power plant | 5 MW | Cancelled | 4.4 km |
| Hill Rig Community Wind Farm | Power plant | 28 MW | Cancelled | 5.6 km |
| Brae Wind Farm grid connection | Grid connection | 24.8 MW | Planned | 6.4 km |
| Coalburn II Energy Storage Facility - Battery Storage Facility | Power plant | 1,000 MW | Under construction | 7.6 km |
| DataVita DV1 | Data center | — | — | 22 km |
| Asanti Hamilton | Data center | — | — | 25 km |
| Sungard Availability Services | Data center | — | — | 29 km |
Grid operator and place
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Candidate sites around this substation
5 sites of land near Lanark have it as nearest substation. Each site page gives its area, its distance to the substation and its site score; owners are on request.
- 1.05 ha brownfield site at Whitelees Road Lanark, South Lanarkshire0.86 km · score 34
- 1.14 ha brownfield site at South Faulds RD Lanark Caldwellside IE, South Lanarkshire1.09 km · score 31
- 3.69 ha brownfield site at A743 Lanark, South Lanarkshire1.13 km · score 30
- 3.14 ha brownfield site at OFF A70 Lanark, South Lanarkshire2.18 km · score 17
- 1.84 ha brownfield site at Jerviswood Road Lanark, South Lanarkshire2.21 km · score 17
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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.