Substation · Scotland, United Kingdom
Midmar Primary Substation
Midmar Primary Substation is a 33 kV primary substation in Scotland, United Kingdom, with 3.09 MVA of demand headroom and 0 MW of generation headroom, connected by Scottish Hydro Electric Power Distribution plc.
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 Power Distribution plc | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Demand headroom | 3.09 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 5MVA | 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 |
| Planned reinforcement | Replace the existing transformer with 2 x 8MVA units (due Mar 2030) | 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 | 57.1517, -2.5264 | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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Within 50 km of this substation: 210 power plants (63 operating, 838 MW), 118 grid connections (50 operating, 404 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Auchorie Farm, Midmar - Wind Turbines | Power plant | 1.6 MW | Planned | 1.1 km |
| Hill of Fare Wind Farm | Power plant | 150 MW | Cancelled | 4.2 km |
| Hill of Fare - Hill of Fare Wind Farm & Battery Storage | Power plant | 106 MW | Planned | 4.4 km |
| Easter Tolmauds Wind 3X8DATA NOT Availabledata NOT AVAILABLEKW grid connection | Grid connection | 2.28 MW | Operating | 6.0 km |
| Tappies Farm PV (Cust REF Kintore Solar Farm) grid connection | Grid connection | 22 MW | Planned | 8.4 km |
| Battery storage and Solar 8.75 MW grid connection at Kintore Grid | Grid connection | 8.75 MW | Operating | 11 km |
| Brightsolid | Data center | — | — | 22 km |
Grid operator and place
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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.