Substation · Scotland, United Kingdom
Townhill Substation
Townhill Substation is a 33 kV primary substation in Scotland, United Kingdom, with 8.92 MVA of demand headroom and 21.6 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 | TOWNHILL | 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 | 8.92 MVA | SP Energy Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Generation headroom | 21.6 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 | 56.0896, -3.4492 | 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: 380 power plants (106 operating, 1,423 MW), 246 grid connections (130 operating, 1,842 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lochhead Landfill CHP | Power plant | 1.7 MW | Operating | 1.5 km |
| Dunfermline North - Solar Photovoltaic Array/Battery storage | Power plant | 29.9 MW | Under construction | 1.5 km |
| Dunfermline North - Solar Photovoltaic Array/Battery storage | Power plant | 20 MW | Under construction | 1.5 km |
| Colton Farm (Dunfermline Solar PV & BESS) grid connection | Grid connection | 62.8 MW | Operating | 1.7 km |
| Lochhead Landfill grid connection | Grid connection | 2.3 MW | Operating | 1.7 km |
| Craigluscar Farm grid connection | Grid connection | 50.4 MW | Planned | 3.2 km |
| Edinburgh SC-3 | Data center | — | — | 18 km |
| Pulsant Edinburgh SC-1 | Data center | — | — | 20 km |
| Pulsant Edinburgh South Gyle SC-1 | Data center | — | — | 20 km |
Grid operator and place
Grid connections attached to this substation
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Candidate sites around this substation
4 sites of land near Townhill have it as nearest substation. Each site page gives its area, its distance to the substation and its site score; owners are on request.
- 1.32 ha brownfield site at Townhill, Fife0.37 km · score 33
- 1.42 ha brownfield site at Bowleys NR Steelend, Fife3.47 km · score 9
- 1.26 ha brownfield site at Carnock Road Dunfermline, Fife2.47 km · score 9
- 1.11 ha brownfield site at Lathalmont Dumfermline, Fife2.83 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.