National Grid buys land at Teesworks for UK's largest power substation

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National Grid has purchased 73 acres at Teesworks to build the UK's largest electricity sub-station, supporting plans for data centres.

National Grid has purchased 73 acres of land at Dorman Point within the Teesworks site to build the UK's largest electricity sub-station. The deal marks a significant step towards realising plans for major data centre development at the former steelworks location.

The sub-station will be part of National Grid's wider grid upgrade programme. It will provide a contracted capacity of 1.44GW, with potential expansion to 3.2GW in the near future. Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen said the increased power capacity means the region can now compete for large-scale data centre and advanced manufacturing projects, describing power supply as the main barrier preventing such developments from locating in Britain rather than overseas locations like Texas or Abu Dhabi.

Planning permission for a data centre at the site was granted last year following an application by Teesworks Limited, the public-private partnership running the former steelworks. This had been submitted despite objections from BP, which had wanted to develop a hydrogen power station on the site. Chris Musgrave OBE, chairman of Teesworks Ltd, said the company's focus is now on delivering remediation works and preparing the land for handover to National Grid.

National Grid buys land at Teesworks for UK's largest power substation — Image: The Northern Echo

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Huge power deal at Teesworks is key step towards data supercentreTeesworks agrees a 73.3-acre land deal with National Grid for Teesside Node A, the UK’s largest substation, supporting data centre plansThe Northern Echo · 2 Nov, 09:17
Teesworks to get massive electricity plant to pave way for data centresNational Grid has agreed a deal for 73 acres of land at the former steelworks site :: It will be the country's largest electricity sub-stationTeessideLive · 2 Nov, 08:25

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