Substation · Scotland, United Kingdom
Lochend Quadrant Substation
Lochend Quadrant Substation is a 33 kV primary substation in Scotland, United Kingdom, with 5.48 MVA of demand 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 | LOCHEND QUADRANT | 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 | 5.48 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 | 55.9599, -3.1539 | 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: 368 power plants (112 operating, 3,186 MW), 211 grid connections (123 operating, 1,822 MW) and 9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seafield Sewage Plant grid connection | Grid connection | 3.19 MW | Operating | 1.6 km |
| Shrubhill 36MW BESS Facility grid connection | Grid connection | 39.6 MW | Planned | 1.9 km |
| St James Energy Centre CHP grid connection | Grid connection | 1.2 MW | Operating | 2.0 km |
| Forth Ports Ltd 4 | Power plant | 120 MW | Cancelled | 3.0 km |
| Millerhill AD (Waste AD) | Power plant | 1.5 MW | Operating | 5.9 km |
| Millerhill EfW | Power plant | 12.5 MW | Operating | 6.0 km |
| Data center, Scotland (OSM way 1548060501) | Data center | — | — | 7.2 km |
| RBS Melville Gate Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 8.4 km |
| Pulsant Edinburgh SC-1 | Data center | — | — | 9.3 km |
Grid operator and place
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Candidate sites around this substation
1 site of land near Lochend Quadrant has it as nearest substation. Each site page gives its area, its distance to the substation and its site score; owners are on request.
- 7.85 ha brownfield site at Leith Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh1.79 km · score 9
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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.