Substation · Scotland, United Kingdom
Muirhouse Substation
Muirhouse Substation is a 33 kV primary substation in Scotland, United Kingdom, with 4.99 MVA of demand headroom and 8.75 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 | MUIRHOUSE | 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 | 4.99 MVA | SP Energy Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Generation headroom | 8.75 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 | 55.7761, -3.9696 | 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: 491 power plants (119 operating, 3,379 MW), 296 grid connections (156 operating, 1,818 MW) and 12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberty Steel Dalzell | Power plant | 17 MW | Operating | 1.6 km |
| Netherton Gas grid connection | Grid connection | 19.9 MW | Operating | 2.0 km |
| Wishaw Battery Storage Facility | Power plant | 50 MW | Operating | 2.2 km |
| Castlehill Road Multi G98 grid connection | Grid connection | 2.2 MW | Planned | 3.8 km |
| Greengairs Landfill Scheme Phase I | Power plant | 1.9 MW | Operating | 4.9 km |
| Norfolk Line PV grid connection | Grid connection | 1 MW | Operating | 5.5 km |
| DataVita DV1 | Data center | — | — | 6.6 km |
| Asanti Hamilton | Data center | — | — | 8.2 km |
| DataVita DV2 | Data center | — | — | 21 km |
Grid operator and place
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Candidate sites around this substation
2 sites of land near Muirhouse have it as nearest substation. Each site page gives its area, its distance to the substation and its site score; owners are on request.
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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.