Substation · Scotland, United Kingdom
Overtown Substation
Overtown Substation is a 33 kV primary substation in Scotland, United Kingdom, with 13.6 MVA of demand headroom and 22.8 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 | OVERTOWN | 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 | 13.6 MVA | SP Energy Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Generation headroom | 22.8 MVA | SP Energy Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Firm capacity | 21 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 | 55.7575, -3.9104 | 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: 478 power plants (115 operating, 3,316 MW), 289 grid connections (151 operating, 1,737 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Castlehill Road Multi G98 grid connection | Grid connection | 2.2 MW | Planned | 0.4 km |
| Wishaw Battery Storage Facility | Power plant | 50 MW | Operating | 2.1 km |
| Netherton Gas grid connection | Grid connection | 19.9 MW | Operating | 2.4 km |
| Shaws Farm | Power plant | 5 MW | Cancelled | 4.5 km |
| Norfolk Line PV grid connection | Grid connection | 1 MW | Operating | 4.5 km |
| The Rosti Factory | Power plant | 2.2 MW | Operating | 4.6 km |
| DataVita DV1 | Data center | — | — | 9.0 km |
| Asanti Hamilton | Data center | — | — | 12 km |
| DataVita DV2 | Data center | — | — | 25 km |
Grid operator and place
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Candidate sites around this substation
13 sites of land near Overtown have it as nearest substation. Each site page gives its area, its distance to the substation and its site score; owners are on request.
- 1.24 ha brownfield site at Dimsdale Road Wishaw, North Lanarkshire0.74 km · score 33
- 6.58 ha brownfield site at Smith Avenue Wishaw, North Lanarkshire0.94 km · score 30
- 6.78 ha brownfield site at Stanhope Place Wishaw, North Lanarkshire1.09 km · score 28
- 1.56 ha brownfield site at Birkshaw Brae Wishaw, North Lanarkshire1.05 km · score 28
- 11 ha brownfield site at Shawgill Farm Law, South Lanarkshire1.23 km · score 27
- 28 ha brownfield site at East of Law Law, South Lanarkshire3.65 km · score 21
- 1.61 ha brownfield site at Overtown Road Wishaw, North Lanarkshire1.48 km · score 21
- 28 ha brownfield site at Overtown Road Newmains, North Lanarkshire2.71 km · score 20
- 2.58 ha brownfield site at Horsley Brae Overtown, North Lanarkshire1.98 km · score 14
- 2.1 ha brownfield site at Horsley Brae Overtown, North Lanarkshire2.18 km · score 14
- 1.45 ha brownfield site at Horsley Brae Overtown, North Lanarkshire2.01 km · score 14
- 1.4 ha brownfield site at Station Road Law, South Lanarkshire2.69 km · score 14
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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.