Substation · Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Umspannwerk Herkules (Herkules substation)
Umspannwerk Herkules is a 110 kV substation in Essen, 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 | North Rhine-Westphalia | OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass) · record · ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Location | Essen (point in boundary) | BKG Verwaltungsgebiete 1:250 000 (VG250) · DL-DE-BY-2.0 · checked 25 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 | 51.4563, 7.0237 | OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass) · record · ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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Within 50 km of this substation: 113 power plants (53 operating, 4,650 MW), 39 CO2 emitters (42,851,282 tCO2e), 13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GuD Herne | CO2 emitter | 940,966 tCO2e | — | 1.8 km |
| GuD Herne | Power plant | 608 MW | Operating | 1.8 km |
| Aluminiumschmelfluseletrolyse Essen | CO2 emitter | 246,245 tCO2e | — | 5.4 km |
| WEA KLA Bottrop | Power plant | 19.5 MW | Operating | 7.4 km |
| Kokerei Prosper (ohne Kesselhaus) | CO2 emitter | 284,975 tCO2e | — | 7.5 km |
| medl BHKW Broich Modul | Power plant | 10.6 MW | Operating | 11 km |
| ProHiPerSi | Processing plant | — | — | 17 km |
| Data center, North Rhine-Westphalia (OSM way 1150893372) | Data center | — | — | 18 km |
| Wiit AG DUS | Data center | — | — | 25 km |
Grid operator 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.