Substation · North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Eickum

Eickum is a 380 kV substation in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, connected by TenneT TSO GmbH.

We hold more on this asset.Planned reinforcement: available on request.

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	North Rhine-Westphalia	OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass) · record · ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors · checked 24 Oct 2026
Location	North Rhine-Westphalia	Netzentwicklungsplan Strom: digital project library · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Grid operator	TenneT TSO GmbH	OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass) · record · ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors · checked 24 Oct 2026
Grid operator	TenneT TSO GmbH	Netzentwicklungsplan Strom: digital project library · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Planned reinforcement	STATCOM (1x) (due 2026, transmission network, NEP measure M592g2, project TTG-018, start grid (approved or under way), confirmed by the previous plan)	Netzentwicklungsplan Strom: digital project library · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Voltage	380 kV	OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass) · record · ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors · checked 24 Oct 2026
Coordinates	52.1053, 8.5717	OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass) · record · ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors · checked 24 Oct 2026

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Also recorded as

2 sources record Eickum; 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
Eickum	asset:osm:way-24230738	OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass)	—
Eickum substation	asset:nep:eickum	Netzentwicklungsplan Strom: point measures (Punktmaßnahmen)	Same name and Land

Nearby

Within 50 km of this substation: 132 power plants (51 operating, 1,007 MW), 4 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
Schaper Grid Energy Storage Herford	Power plant	18 MW	Operating	6.4 km
Batteriespeicher SWB	Power plant	10 MW	Planned	7.1 km
Turbine 1 (Bielefeld)	Power plant	36.6 MW	Operating	7.4 km
Data center, North Rhine-Westphalia (OSM way 88425865)	Data center	—	—	26 km
Mittwald CM Service GmbH & Co. KG data center, North Rhine-Westphalia	Data center	—	—	31 km
Gebäude 94/95	Data center	—	—	42 km
Drehofen 4 Lengerich	CO2 emitter	167,323 tCO2e	—	48 km
Drehofenanlage 8 Lengerich	CO2 emitter	621,978 tCO2e	—	48 km

Grid operator and place

TenneT TSO GmbHGrid operator
Substations in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany929
Substations in Germany5,311
Germany: country profile

Candidate sites around this substation

1 site of land near Eickum has it as nearest substation. Each site page gives its area, its distance to the substation and its site score; owners are on request.

50 ha site at Gemarkung Oldinghausen, Flur 5, Flurstück 270.58 km · score 71

Other substations in North Rhine-Westphalia

All 929 substations in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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.
Netzentwicklungsplan Strom: point measures (Punktmaßnahmen). Netzentwicklungsplan Strom: point measures (Punktmaßnahmen), Restricted.
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.