SSEN network capacity map

Generation headroom, fault levels and the connection queue for Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks substations, taken from SSEN's open data and shown on one map with the other five GB distribution network operators. SSEN covers North Scotland, Central Southern England.

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What SSEN publishes

3,291

Busbars at Primary and above

27%

With generation headroom

27%

With demand headroom

63%

With a fault level

Share of busbars carrying each figure in the current build. Full method on the data coverage page.

SSEN sites with the most queued generation

Site	Queued	Connected	Projects
Chickerell	910 MW	112 MW	20
Nursling	871 MW	162 MW	18
Mannington	771 MW	161 MW	32
Coupar Angus	720 MW	119 MW	22
Melksham	706 MW	137 MW	14
Keith	650 MW	162 MW	34
Abernethy	628 MW	147 MW	26
Minety	610 MW	242 MW	19
Elgin	523 MW	0 MW	7
Kintore	517 MW	95 MW	28

From the Embedded Capacity Register and the NESO TEC register. The full GB list is on the connection queue page.

Other DNO capacity maps

NGED capacity map
UKPN capacity map
NPG capacity map
SPEN capacity map
ENW capacity map