Substation · Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Umspannwerk Schwelgern (Schwelgern substation)
Umspannwerk Schwelgern is a 220 kV substation in Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, connected by thyssenkrupp AG.
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 | Duisburg (point in boundary) | BKG Verwaltungsgebiete 1:250 000 (VG250) · DL-DE-BY-2.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Location | North Rhine-Westphalia | OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass) · record · ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Grid operator | thyssenkrupp AG | OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass) · record · ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Voltage | 220 kV (levels 220, 110 kV) | OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass) · record · ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 51.5131, 6.7412 | 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: 223 power plants (124 operating, 5,037 MW), 132 permit notices, 39 CO2 emitters (6 operating), 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kokerei Duisburg Schwelgern | CO2 emitter | 1,801,163 tCO2e | — | 1.8 km |
| SGE Duisburg-Walsum | Power plant | 47 MW | Planned | 2.3 km |
| Heizkraftwerk Walsum | CO2 emitter | 1,543,124 tCO2e | — | 2.4 km |
| Dampfkesselanlage Duisburg Hamborn | CO2 emitter | 2,142,688 tCO2e | — | 2.5 km |
| Hamborn 5 | Power plant | 759 MW | Operating | 2.5 km |
| GBS KW Walsum | Power plant | 15 MW | Operating | 2.6 km |
| ProHiPerSi | Processing plant | — | — | 4.5 km |
| Wiit AG DUS | Data center | — | — | 28 km |
| Equinix DU1 | Data center | — | — | 33 km |
Grid operator and place
Candidate sites around this substation
1 site of land near Schwelgern has it as nearest substation. Each site page gives its area, its distance to the substation and its site score; owners are on request.
- 115 ha site at Gemarkung Hamborn, Flur 202, Flurstück 1760.03 km · score 89
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 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.