Substation · Scotland, United Kingdom
Pitreavie Substation
Pitreavie Substation is a 33 kV primary substation in Scotland, United Kingdom, with 12.3 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 | PITREAVIE | 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 | 12.3 MVA | SP Energy Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Firm capacity | 23 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 | 56.0559, -3.4404 | 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: 384 power plants (108 operating, 1,433 MW), 250 grid connections (136 operating, 1,822 MW) and 10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| F M C Land, Pitreavie Business Park | Power plant | 1.5 MW | Operating | 0.1 km |
| FMC Tech Wind Turbine grid connection | Grid connection | 1.6 MW | Operating | 0.3 km |
| FMC Technologies | Power plant | 1.5 MW | Operating | 0.3 km |
| Babcock Marine Bldg, Wood Road - Solar Photovoltaic Array | Power plant | 5.64 MW | Permitted | 2.9 km |
| Solar and Wind 10.1 MW grid connection at Rosyth Dokyard (Customer substation) | Grid connection | 10.1 MW | Planned | 3.0 km |
| The Black Shed (Inverkeithing Gas Generation) grid connection | Grid connection | 20.7 MW | Planned | 3.0 km |
| Edinburgh SC-3 | Data center | — | — | 14 km |
| Pulsant Edinburgh SC-1 | Data center | — | — | 17 km |
| Pulsant Edinburgh South Gyle SC-1 | Data center | — | — | 17 km |
Grid operator and place
Grid connections attached to this substation
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Candidate sites around this substation
1 site of land near Pitreavie has it as nearest substation. Each site page gives its area, its distance to the substation and its site score; owners are on request.
- 5.99 ha brownfield site at Rosyth, Fife1.14 km · score 26
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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.