Substation · Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Umspannwerk Gelsenberg (Gelsenberg substation)
Umspannwerk Gelsenberg is a 220 kV substation in Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, connected by RWE Aktiengesellschaft and Emscher Lippe Energie 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 |
| Location | Gelsenkirchen (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 |
| Grid operator | Emscher Lippe Energie GmbH | 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 | 51.5407, 7.0370 | OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass) · record · ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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Within 50 km of this substation: 133 power plants (61 operating, 4,235 MW), 33 CO2 emitters (39,706,691 tCO2e), 9 data centers, 9 permit notices 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kokerei Prosper (ohne Kesselhaus) | CO2 emitter | 284,975 tCO2e | — | 4.0 km |
| WEA KLA Bottrop | Power plant | 19.5 MW | Operating | 4.5 km |
| Ruhr Oel GmbH - Werk Horst - CO2-Glocke | CO2 emitter | 1,086,069 tCO2e | — | 6.3 km |
| Ruhr Oel GmbH - Werk Scholven - CO2-Glocke | CO2 emitter | 2,850,419 tCO2e | — | 6.3 km |
| GBS KW Herne | Power plant | 15 MW | Operating | 11 km |
| GuD Herne | Power plant | 608 MW | Operating | 11 km |
| ProHiPerSi | Processing plant | — | — | 16 km |
| Data center, North Rhine-Westphalia (OSM way 1150893372) | Data center | — | — | 19 km |
| RZ5 Dortmund-Huckarde | Data center | — | — | 26 km |
Grid operators and place
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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.