Substation · North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Ruhrzink
Ruhrzink is a 220 kV substation in North Rhine-Westphalia, 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 | North Rhine-Westphalia | OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass) · record · ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Grid operator | Amprion GmbH | OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass) · record · ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Voltage | 220 kV | OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass) · record · ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 51.6212, 7.3242 | OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass) · record · ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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Within 50 km of this substation: 151 power plants (77 operating, 3,992 MW), 30 CO2 emitters (33,009,990 tCO2e), 8 data centers and 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Datteln 4 | Power plant | 1,052 MW | Operating | 1.8 km |
| Kraftwerk Datteln Block 4 | CO2 emitter | 2,875,406 tCO2e | — | 1.8 km |
| WP Datteln | Power plant | 11.4 MW | Operating | 2.6 km |
| Biomass Heizkraftwerk Recklinghausen | Power plant | 18 MW | Operating | 5.4 km |
| Kohlekraftwerk Lünen - TKL | CO2 emitter | 2,319,858 tCO2e | — | 9.7 km |
| RZ5 Dortmund-Huckarde | Data center | — | — | 12 km |
| Anlage zur Herstellung von Furnaceruss | CO2 emitter | 258,542 tCO2e | — | 12 km |
| Second TBRC Lünen | Processing plant | — | — | 13 km |
| Data center, Dortmund (OSM way 54821769) | Data center | — | — | 16 km |
Grid operator and place
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Data on this page
- © European Union, European Commission (DG GROW). EU CRMA strategic projects, CC BY 4.0.
- 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.