Substation · North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Opladen substation

Opladen substation is a 380 kV substation in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, connected by Amprion GmbH and RWE Aktiengesellschaft.

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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	Netzentwicklungsplan Strom: digital project library · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Location	North Rhine-Westphalia	OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass) · record · ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors · checked 24 Oct 2026
Grid operator	Amprion GmbH	Netzentwicklungsplan Strom: digital project library · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Grid operator	RWE Aktiengesellschaft	OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass) · record · ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors · checked 24 Oct 2026
Planned reinforcement	380 kV shunt reactor (1x) (due 2030, transmission network, NEP measure M412b16, project AMP-P412, start grid (approved or under way))	Netzentwicklungsplan Strom: digital project library · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Voltage	380 kV	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	51.0699, 6.9659	OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass) · record · ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors · checked 24 Oct 2026

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Also recorded as

2 sources record Opladen substation; 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
Opladen substation	asset:nep:opladen	Netzentwicklungsplan Strom: point measures (Punktmaßnahmen)	—
Station Opladen	asset:osm:way-22761839	OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass)	Same name and Land

Nearby

Within 50 km of this substation: 135 power plants (81 operating, 8,369 MW), 36 CO2 emitters (57,432,090 tCO2e), 13 data centers and 1 processing plant, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.

Name	Kind	Size	Status	Distance
Datacenter One	Data center	—	—	4.0 km
Heizkraftwerk Merkenich	CO2 emitter	196,824 tCO2e	—	5.8 km
LEV KWG	Power plant	13.7 MW	Operating	6.0 km
NetCologne data center, Köln	Data center	—	—	7.5 km
Ammoniak-Anlage, Geb. O 07	CO2 emitter	377,590 tCO2e	—	8.4 km
Kracker 4, Geb. T21	CO2 emitter	748,653 tCO2e	—	8.4 km
GKW	Power plant	10 MW	Operating	8.8 km
Dormagen	Power plant	562 MW	Operating	11 km
Surfplanet GmbH	Data center	—	—	11 km

Grid operators and place

Amprion GmbHGrid operator
RWE AktiengesellschaftGrid operator
Substations in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany929
Substations in Germany5,311
Germany: country profile

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.