Substation · Scotland, United Kingdom
Longannet Substation
Longannet Substation is a 33 kV primary substation in Scotland, United Kingdom, with 7.12 MVA of demand headroom and 10.7 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 | LONGANNET | 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 | 7.12 MVA | SP Energy Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Generation headroom | 10.7 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 | 56.0575, -3.6941 | 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: 400 power plants (108 operating, 1,403 MW), 302 grid connections (162 operating, 1,978 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Longannet | Power plant | 25 MW | Cancelled | 0.5 km |
| Kincardine Grid Services Complex - Energy Storage Facility | Power plant | 400 MW | Cancelled | 2.5 km |
| Kincardine Battery Storage | Power plant | 342 MW | Permitted | 3.5 km |
| Calachem (Earls Gate Power Systems) grid connection | Grid connection | 28 MW | Operating | 5.3 km |
| West Grange Solar Farm (Resubmission) grid connection | Grid connection | 5 MW | Planned | 5.4 km |
| Caledon Green Gas grid connection | Grid connection | 22.5 MW | Operating | 5.8 km |
| Edinburgh SC-3 | Data center | — | — | 23 km |
| Sungard Availability Services | Data center | — | — | 24 km |
| Pulsant Edinburgh SC-1 | Data center | — | — | 29 km |
Grid operator and place
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Candidate sites around this substation
7 sites of land near Longannet have it as nearest substation. Each site page gives its area, its distance to the substation and its site score; owners are on request.
- 34 ha brownfield site at Kincardine, Fife0.17 km · score 43
- 9.64 ha brownfield site at Longannet Kincardine, Fife0.28 km · score 34
- 7.19 ha brownfield site at Kincardine, Fife0.22 km · score 34
- 38 ha brownfield site at Longannet Kincardine, Fife1.15 km · score 30
- 4.98 ha brownfield site at Kincardine, Fife0.54 km · score 29
- 5.95 ha brownfield site at Kincardine, Fife0.67 km · score 27
- 24 ha brownfield site at Kincardine, Fife2.8 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.