Substation · Scotland, United Kingdom
Watling Street Substation
Watling Street Substation is a 33 kV primary substation in Scotland, United Kingdom, with 11.3 MVA of demand headroom and 23.4 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 | WATLING STREET | 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 | 11.3 MVA | SP Energy Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Generation headroom | 23.4 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 | 55.8015, -4.0123 | 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: 489 power plants (124 operating, 3,367 MW), 303 grid connections (160 operating, 1,883 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 | 2.4 km |
| Brew Dog Brewery, Condor Glen - Solar Panels | Power plant | 1.3 MW | Cancelled | 3.1 km |
| Whistleberry Road, Hamilton | Power plant | 18 MW | Cancelled | 3.1 km |
| Glasgow Advanced grid connection | Grid connection | 29 MW | Planned | 4.5 km |
| North Lanarkshire Bio (Carnbroe EFW) grid connection | Grid connection | 32.1 MW | Planned | 4.5 km |
| Coatbridge Material Recovery And Renewable Energy Facility grid connection | Grid connection | 25 MW | Planned | 4.5 km |
| DataVita DV1 | Data center | — | — | 5.2 km |
| Asanti Hamilton | Data center | — | — | 6.0 km |
| DataVita DV2 | Data center | — | — | 17 km |
Grid operator and place
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Candidate sites around this substation
2 sites of land near Watling Street have it as nearest substation. Each site page gives its area, its distance to the substation and its site score; owners are on request.
- 1.14 ha brownfield site at Kylemore Crescent Motherwell, North Lanarkshire0.93 km · score 27
- 1.18 ha brownfield site at Farm Street Motherwell, North Lanarkshire1.29 km · score 22
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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.