Substation · Bad Essen, Lower Saxony, Germany

Umspannwerk Wehrendorf (Wehrendorf substation)

Umspannwerk Wehrendorf is a 380 kV substation in Bad Essen, Lower Saxony, Germany, connected by Amprion GmbH.

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	Bad Essen (point in boundary)	BKG Verwaltungsgebiete 1:250 000 (VG250) · DL-DE-BY-2.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Location	Lower Saxony	OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass) · record · ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors · checked 24 Oct 2026 Netzentwicklungsplan Strom: digital project library · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Grid operator	Amprion GmbH	OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass) · record · ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors · checked 24 Oct 2026 Netzentwicklungsplan Strom: digital project library · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Planned reinforcement	STATCOM (1x) (due 2026, transmission network, NEP measure M412c3, project AMP-P412, start grid (approved or under way), confirmed by the previous plan)	Netzentwicklungsplan Strom: digital project library · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Planned reinforcement	Short-circuit strength upgrade (due 2037, transmission network, NEP measure M1163, project P612, added by this plan)	Netzentwicklungsplan Strom: digital project library · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Voltage	380 kV (levels 380, 220, 110 kV)	OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass) · record · ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors · checked 24 Oct 2026
Coordinates	52.3458, 8.3080	OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass) · record · ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors · checked 24 Oct 2026

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Also recorded as

2 sources record Wehrendorf; this page joins their facts, each with its own source. Links to any of the records lead here. How records are matched.

Name in the source	Identifier	Source	Matched on
Wehrendorf	asset:osm:way-33411203	OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass)	—
Wehrendorf substation	asset:nep:wehrendorf	Netzentwicklungsplan Strom: digital project library	Same name and Land

Nearby

Within 50 km of this substation: 138 power plants (54 operating, 1,422 MW), 3 data centers and 2 CO2 emitters (789,301 tCO2e), measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 8, up to 3 per kind.

Name	Kind	Size	Status	Distance
WP Langewiesen	Power plant	13.8 MW	Planned	4.0 km
WP Langewiesen	Power plant	13.6 MW	Planned	4.3 km
FFPVA Bohmterheide	Power plant	12.9 MW	Planned	4.6 km
Gebäude 94/95	Data center	—	—	21 km
Mittwald CM Service GmbH & Co. KG data center, North Rhine-Westphalia	Data center	—	—	22 km
Drehofen 4 Lengerich	CO2 emitter	167,323 tCO2e	—	35 km
Drehofenanlage 8 Lengerich	CO2 emitter	621,978 tCO2e	—	35 km
DMO	Data center	—	—	48 km

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Data on this page

© BKG (2026) dl-de/by-2-0, Datenquellen: https://sg.geodatenzentrum.de/web_public/gdz/datenquellen/datenquellen_vg_nuts.pdf. BKG Verwaltungsgebiete 1:250 000 (VG250), DL-DE-BY-2.0.
European Commission, Union Registry. EU Union Registry public data, CC BY 4.0.
Bundesnetzagentur, Marktstammdatenregister. Marktstammdatenregister, DL-DE-BY-2.0.
Netzentwicklungsplan Strom 2037/2045 (2025), zweiter Entwurf | Übertragungsnetzbetreiber (M) CC-BY-4.0. Netzentwicklungsplan Strom: digital project library, CC BY 4.0.
OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass). OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass), ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors.