Proven domain · 01
Energy networks & generation
Power availability is now the binding constraint on development, not land. Grid connection waits exceed seven years in some markets, and AI data centres are projected to need 20–30 GW by late 2027. Every industrial, logistics and compute siting decision starts here.
Questions a council can answer here
Emergency planning
Which transmission substations are inside a flood warning area?
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Which battery storage plants are within 1 km of a conservation area?
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Which generation and storage sites are inside the green belt?
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What is in the layer
Power lines and substations (OpenStreetMap, SSEN, Northern Powergrid and the transmission network), every renewable and storage project in the planning database, battery storage and hydro plants, offshore wind leases and export cables, grid supply point and DNO boundaries. Planned: substation headroom and connection queue position, from the DNOs' capacity registers and NESO's queue.
Who it is for
Planning, climate and economic development teams: energy applications, local area energy plans and emergency planning.
Also: Developers, data-centre operators, industrial siting teams, renewable developers, grid consultancies.
Status. Each domain carries its own data, independent of the city assessments. Where a source is wired the map is live; otherwise the layers are specified and the ingest is still to build.