Substation · United Kingdom
Whitegate Substation
Operator National Grid Electricity Transmission
Not statedData checked 11 November 2026
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Whitegate Substation is a substation on the edge of Chadderton, United Kingdom. Its status in the OpenStreetMap is not stated. There are 113 other energy sites within 10 km, one of them a substation. The register holds one incident at this site, the latest in 2019.
Incidents on the register at this site
During construction works at Whitegate Substation in Chadderton, Oldham, an excavator struck an existing live high voltage cable on 17 September 2019. The excavator was working for VolkerInfra Ltd, a subcontractor to principal contractor Siemens Energy Ltd on...
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The site
- Technology
- Substation (275 kV substation)
- Status
- Not stated (Mapped in OpenStreetMap; the map does not say whether it is running)
- Operator
- National Grid Electricity Transmission
- Location
- , United Kingdom
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Questions
- Has Whitegate Substation had a fire or other incident?
- Yes. The register holds one incident that names it: Cable strike during substation works injures worker at Oldham (EIR-2177, 2019).
- What is the status of Whitegate Substation?
- Not stated, in the OpenStreetMap.
- Where is Whitegate Substation?
- On the edge of Chadderton, United Kingdom.
Source: OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database Licence (ODbL), openstreetmap.org/copyright. The dataset. The register adds only the incidents and the counts. Nearest town: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0).