Substation · North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Station Knapsack
Station Knapsack is a 380 kV substation in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, connected by Amprion GmbH.
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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 |
| Planned reinforcement | Available on request | Netzentwicklungsplan Strom: point measures (Punktmaßnahmen) · Restricted · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Voltage | 380 kV (levels 380, 110 kV) | OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass) · record · ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 50.8635, 6.8426 | OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass) · record · ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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Also recorded as
2 sources record Station Knapsack; this page joins their facts, each with its own source. Links to any of the records lead here. How records are matched.
| Name in the source | Identifier | Source | Matched on |
|---|---|---|---|
| Station Knapsack | asset:osm:way-22765517 | OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass) | — |
| Knapsack substation | asset:nep:knapsack | Netzentwicklungsplan Strom: point measures (Punktmaßnahmen) | Same name and Land |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this substation: 163 power plants (96 operating, 7,978 MW), 23 CO2 emitters (44,131,340 tCO2e), 11 data centers and 1 processing plant, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gasmotorenkraftwerk Knapsacker Hügel | Power plant | 129 MW | Planned | 0.3 km |
| Kraftwerk Knapsacker Hügel (Betriebsteil Goldenberg und Berrenrath) | CO2 emitter | 886,155 tCO2e | — | 0.3 km |
| Gas und Dampfturbinen Kraftanlage Knapsack | CO2 emitter | 566,793 tCO2e | — | 2.4 km |
| PVA - Solarpark Hürth Gleuel | Power plant | 23.6 MW | Operating | 3.3 km |
| Industriekraftwerk Frechen | CO2 emitter | 568,341 tCO2e | — | 5.4 km |
| Windpark Frechen | Power plant | 13.5 MW | Planned | 6.0 km |
| NetCologne data center, Köln | Data center | — | — | 17 km |
| Surfplanet GmbH | Data center | — | — | 18 km |
| Datacenter One | Data center | — | — | 25 km |
Grid operator and place
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Candidate sites around this substation
2 sites of land near Station Knapsack have it as nearest substation. Each site page gives its area, its distance to the substation and its site score; owners are on request.
- 66 ha site at Gemarkung Hürth, Flur 13, Flurstück 300.12 km · score 84
- 56 ha site at Gemarkung Hürth, Flur 13, Flurstück 40.47 km · score 75
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Data on this page
- European Commission, Union Registry. EU Union Registry public data, CC BY 4.0.
- Bundesnetzagentur, Marktstammdatenregister. Marktstammdatenregister, DL-DE-BY-2.0.
- Netzentwicklungsplan Strom: point measures (Punktmaßnahmen). Netzentwicklungsplan Strom: point measures (Punktmaßnahmen), Restricted.
- © OpenStreetMap contributors. OpenStreetMap data centers, ODbL 1.0.
- OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass). OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass), ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors.