Substation · North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Station Merl
Station Merl is a 110 kV substation in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, connected by RWE Aktiengesellschaft.
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 |
| Grid operator | RWE Aktiengesellschaft | 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 | 50.6314, 7.0455 | OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass) · record · ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
Research on this substation and its grid operator.Who owns it up to the parent company, its headroom, congestion and the land around it, and an introduction to the grid operator.
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Within 50 km of this substation: 100 power plants (53 operating, 3,206 MW), 14 CO2 emitters (18,127,657 tCO2e) and 4 data centers, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Speicher-Leimersdorf | Power plant | 12 MW | Planned | 7.2 km |
| PV-Leimersdorf | Power plant | 12.3 MW | Planned | 7.3 km |
| RHR1-B-D1-706-GEN-001-NEA3 | Power plant | 22.3 MW | Operating | 13 km |
| Raffinerie Wesseling | CO2 emitter | 1,181,289 tCO2e | — | 21 km |
| Dampfkessel Wesseling | CO2 emitter | 361,165 tCO2e | — | 23 km |
| Ethylenanlage OM4 | CO2 emitter | 270,925 tCO2e | — | 23 km |
| Data center, Rhineland-Palatinate (OSM node 9776934144) | Data center | — | — | 38 km |
| Surfplanet GmbH | Data center | — | — | 38 km |
| NetCologne data center, Köln | Data center | — | — | 44 km |
Grid operator and place
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Candidate sites around this substation
2 sites of land near Station Merl have it as nearest substation. Each site page gives its area, its distance to the substation and its site score; owners are on request.
- 73 ha site at Gemarkung Adendorf, Flur 2, Flurstück 13321.15 km · score 49
- 63 ha site at Gemarkung Adendorf, Flur 1, Flurstück 801.23 km · score 44
Other substations in North Rhine-Westphalia
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.
- © OpenStreetMap contributors. OpenStreetMap data centers, ODbL 1.0.
- OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass). OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass), ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors.