Substation · Oer-Erkenschwick, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Umspannwerk Erkenschwick (Erkenschwick substation)
Umspannwerk Erkenschwick is a 110 kV substation in Oer-Erkenschwick, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, connected by Westnetz 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 | Oer-Erkenschwick (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 | Westnetz GmbH | 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 | 51.6523, 7.2691 | 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.
Request researchNearby
Within 50 km of this substation: 157 power plants (80 operating, 4,691 MW), 34 CO2 emitters (40,022,735 tCO2e), 10 permit notices, 7 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 | 5.3 km |
| Kraftwerk Datteln Block 4 | CO2 emitter | 2,875,406 tCO2e | — | 5.3 km |
| Biomass Heizkraftwerk Recklinghausen | Power plant | 18 MW | Operating | 5.5 km |
| WP Datteln | Power plant | 11.4 MW | Operating | 5.9 km |
| Kraftwerk VI | CO2 emitter | 491,142 tCO2e | — | 13 km |
| Kraftwerk VII | CO2 emitter | 203,238 tCO2e | — | 13 km |
| RZ5 Dortmund-Huckarde | Data center | — | — | 17 km |
| Second TBRC Lünen | Processing plant | — | — | 17 km |
| Data center, Dortmund (OSM way 54821769) | Data center | — | — | 21 km |
Grid operator and place
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Candidate sites around this substation
1 site of land near Station Erkenschwick has it as nearest substation. Each site page gives its area, its distance to the substation and its site score; owners are on request.
- 76 ha site at Gemarkung Oer-Erkenschwick, Flur 29, Flurstück 211.13 km · score 50
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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.