Great Britain's primary substation service areas and annual domestic energy statistics

This geospatial data is a combination of Great Britain's 4436 primary substation service areas which have been parsed into a single shapefile for energy systems analysis. The original component datasets were provided by the six distribution network operator (DNO) companies in Great Britain (National Grid Electricity Distribution, Electricity North West Ltd, Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks, UK Power Networks, Scottish Power Energy Networks and Northern Power Grid). Attribution is given to the original data owners at each of these six DNOs and the resulting dataset from this work has been created and published under an open licence with each DNO's permission. The data is available to download as two geojson files in the WGS84 coordinate system. One is a streamlined version which just contains the polygons along with a unique primary identifier (UPID), primary substation name, DNO licence area and local authority. The other contains the polygons along with richer energy data which was aggregated to the primary substation level from publicly available Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Office for National Statistics and National Grid ESO datasets. This data is also available to download in tabular form as a csv file. The meter numbers and consumption values are the means of those reported from 2015-2020. The substation polygons were those as received or publicly available as of the time period of this study (2021-22). Links to source datasets along with details on the creation methodology, use cases and significance of this dataset will be described in an upcoming manuscript which is under review for publication. Funding to support this work was received from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/W008726/1) under the Gas Net New project and the Alan Turing Institute's Science of Cities and Regions Programme. Thanks are also given to the contributors of QGIS and the Geopandas Python library, both of which were used in this analysis.