Substation · Hesse, Germany
Umspannwerk Birkenau
Umspannwerk Birkenau is a 110 kV substation in Hesse, Germany, connected by RWE.
Facts
Every value links to its source, and to the source's own record where it has one. Licences and last-checked dates are per row.
| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Location | Hesse | OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass) · record · ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Grid operator | RWE | OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass) · record · ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Voltage | 110 kV (levels 110, 20 kV) | OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass) · record · ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 49.5738, 8.7115 | OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass) · record · ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
Research on this substation and its grid operator.Who owns it up to the parent company, its headroom, congestion and the land around it, and an introduction to the grid operator.
Request researchNearby
Within 50 km of this substation: 77 power plants (42 operating, 861 MW), 16 data centers, 6 CO2 emitters (6,484,298 tCO2e) and 1 AI supercomputer, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PV Rodfeld | Power plant | 11.8 MW | Operating | 7.5 km |
| STI | Power plant | 17.3 MW | Operating | 9.9 km |
| Windpark Fürth | Power plant | 16.5 MW | Operating | 13 km |
| nexspace Data Center | Data center | — | — | 20 km |
| Wavehouse | Data center | — | — | 21 km |
| Grosskraftwerk Mannheim | CO2 emitter | 3,773,541 tCO2e | — | 21 km |
| Heizkraftwerk GuD Süd (C200) | CO2 emitter | 858,161 tCO2e | — | 22 km |
| Ammoniak-Fabrik 4 | CO2 emitter | 706,158 tCO2e | — | 22 km |
| Rechenzentrum Pfalzkom, DCRN I | Data center | — | — | 30 km |
Grid operator and place
- RWEGrid operator
- Substations in Hesse, Germany316
- Substations in Germany5,311
- Germany: country profile
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Candidate sites around this substation
3 sites of land near Umspannwerk Birkenau have it as nearest substation. Each site page gives its area, its distance to the substation and its site score; owners are on request.
- 119 ha site at Gemarkung Weinheim, Flurstück 108201.78 km · score 49
- 61 ha site at Gemarkung Birkenau, Flur 12, Flurstück 740.96 km · score 48
- 78 ha site at Gemarkung Sulzbach, Flurstück 15621.99 km · score 36
Other substations in Hesse
Data on this page
- European Commission, Union Registry. EU Union Registry public data, CC BY 4.0.
- Bundesnetzagentur, Marktstammdatenregister. Marktstammdatenregister, DL-DE-BY-2.0.
- © OpenStreetMap contributors. OpenStreetMap data centers, ODbL 1.0.
- OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass). OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass), ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors.