Substation · Scotland, United Kingdom
Towers Road Substation
Towers Road Substation is a 33 kV primary substation in Scotland, United Kingdom, with 8.8 MVA of demand headroom and 27.6 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 | TOWERS ROAD | 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 | 8.8 MVA | SP Energy Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Generation headroom | 27.6 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 | 55.8690, -3.9459 | 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: 441 power plants (111 operating, 2,855 MW), 299 grid connections (156 operating, 1,764 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wester Moffat Farm, Towers Road - Solar Photovoltaic Panels | Power plant | 2 MW | Permitted | 0.4 km |
| Green Hills | Power plant | 21 MW | Cancelled | 1.7 km |
| Damhead Farm | Power plant | 2.5 MW | Operating | 1.8 km |
| Damhead Farm Wind Turbine grid connection | Grid connection | 2 MW | Operating | 1.8 km |
| Drumgray Energy from Waste grid connection | Grid connection | 32.1 MW | Planned | 3.2 km |
| DataVita DV1 | Data center | — | — | 3.9 km |
| AGS Newhouse BESS grid connection | Grid connection | 30 MW | Planned | 4.2 km |
| Asanti Hamilton | Data center | — | — | 14 km |
| DataVita DV2 | Data center | — | — | 20 km |
Grid operator and place
Grid connections attached to this substation
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Candidate sites around this substation
14 sites of land near Towers Road have it as nearest substation. Each site page gives its area, its distance to the substation and its site score; owners are on request.
- 65 ha brownfield site at Greengairs Road Greengairs, North Lanarkshire2.35 km · score 27
- 2.31 ha brownfield site at Carlisle Road Airdrie, North Lanarkshire0.79 km · score 27
- 50 ha brownfield site at Stirling Road Airdrie, North Lanarkshire3.58 km · score 22
- 42 ha brownfield site at Greengairs Road Greengairs, North Lanarkshire3.85 km · score 20
- 2.87 ha brownfield site at Meadowhead Road Plains, North Lanarkshire1.38 km · score 18
- 30 ha brownfield site at Greengairs Road Greengairs, North Lanarkshire2.79 km · score 16
- 1.78 ha brownfield site at Main Street Plains, North Lanarkshire1.56 km · score 15
- 4.68 ha brownfield site at Airdrie Road Caldercruix, North Lanarkshire3.93 km · score 9
- 1.55 ha brownfield site at Duntilland Road Salsburgh, North Lanarkshire4.49 km · score 9
- 1.32 ha brownfield site at Glen Road Caldercruix, North Lanarkshire4.4 km · score 9
- 1.31 ha brownfield site at Airdrie Road Caldercruix, North Lanarkshire3.98 km · score 9
- 1.25 ha brownfield site at Stirling Road Airdrie, North Lanarkshire2.38 km · score 9
Other substations in Scotland
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.