Great Britain Electricity Substations with Constraint Status, 2018

Great Britain contains 56,865 electricity substations operating at 33 kV or larger voltage. The dataset includes names, types, voltages, constraint status, and national grid references, compiled from individual network operator websites. It was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council.

Use Cases

• Map substation locations and density using national grid references for network capacity planning.
• Analyze the distribution of constraint status across substation types and voltage levels.
• Model electricity network vulnerability by correlating substation type with its reported constraint status.

Strengths

• Contains 56,865 individual substation records.
• Includes specific attributes like constraint status and national grid references.
• Data is geospatially specific to Great Britain.

Limitations

• Data is from a single year (2018) and may not reflect current network status.
• Constraint status was interpreted from operator websites, potentially introducing classification inconsistencies.

Provenance

Source

Environmental Information Data Centre

Collection Method

Compiled and interpreted from individual transmission or distribution network operator websites.

Time Range

2018

Freshness

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Geography

Great Britain