Substation · Frechen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Umspannwerk Grefrath (Grefrath substation)
Umspannwerk Grefrath is a 110 kV substation in Frechen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, operated by RWE Aktiengesellschaft.
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 | Frechen (point in boundary) | BKG Verwaltungsgebiete 1:250 000 (VG250) · DL-DE-BY-2.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Grid operator | RWE Aktiengesellschaft | OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass) · record · ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Voltage | 110 kV | OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass) · record · ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 50.8991, 6.7923 | OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass) · record · ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
Research on this substation and the land around it.Its headroom, connection queue and congestion, who owns the land around it, and an introduction to those owners.
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Within 50 km of this substation: 174 power plants (102 operating, 8,064 MW), 23 CO2 emitters (44,131,340 tCO2e), 14 data centers and 2 processing plants, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Industriekraftwerk Frechen | CO2 emitter | 568,341 tCO2e | — | 0.3 km |
| PVA - Solarpark Hürth Gleuel | Power plant | 23.6 MW | Operating | 2.0 km |
| Windpark Frechen | Power plant | 13.5 MW | Planned | 3.0 km |
| Windpark Kerpen-Marienfeld | Power plant | 11.4 MW | Planned | 4.1 km |
| Kraftwerk Knapsacker Hügel (Betriebsteil Goldenberg und Berrenrath) | CO2 emitter | 886,155 tCO2e | — | 5.5 km |
| Gas und Dampfturbinen Kraftanlage Knapsack | CO2 emitter | 566,793 tCO2e | — | 6.9 km |
| NetCologne data center, Köln | Data center | — | — | 15 km |
| Surfplanet GmbH | Data center | — | — | 18 km |
| Datacenter One | Data center | — | — | 24 km |
Grid operator and place
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Candidate sites around this substation
2 sites of land near Grefrath have it as nearest substation. Each site page gives its area, its distance to the substation and its site score; owners are on request.
- 92 ha site at Gemarkung Bachem, Flur 14, Flurstück 2901.02 km · score 58
- 50 ha site at Gemarkung Gleuel, Flur 20, Flurstück 6461.59 km · score 33
Other substations in North Rhine-Westphalia
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.
- © OpenStreetMap contributors. OpenStreetMap data centers, ODbL 1.0.
- OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass). OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass), ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors.