Substation · North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Niederrhein substation

Niederrhein substation is a 380 kV substation in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, connected by Amprion GmbH and 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	Netzentwicklungsplan Strom: digital project library · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Location	North Rhine-Westphalia	OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass) · record · ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors · checked 24 Oct 2026
Grid operator	Amprion GmbH	Netzentwicklungsplan Strom: digital project library · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Grid operator	RWE Aktiengesellschaft	OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass) · record · ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors · checked 24 Oct 2026
Planned reinforcement	380 kV shunt reactor (1x) (due 2026, transmission network, NEP measure M412b15, project AMP-P412, start grid (approved or under way))	Netzentwicklungsplan Strom: digital project library · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Voltage	380 kV	Netzentwicklungsplan Strom: digital project library · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Voltage	380 kV (levels 380, 220, 110 kV)	OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass) · record · ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors · checked 24 Oct 2026
Coordinates	51.6467, 6.6811	OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass) · record · ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors · checked 24 Oct 2026

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Also recorded as

2 sources record Niederrhein substation; 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
Niederrhein substation	asset:nep:niederrhein	Netzentwicklungsplan Strom: digital project library	—
Station Niederrhein	asset:osm:way-24462426	OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass)	Same name and Land

Nearby

Within 50 km of this substation: 271 power plants (156 operating, 4,822 MW), 228 permit notices, 41 CO2 emitters (12 operating), 5 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
WP Drevenack	Power plant	14 MW	Planned	5.7 km
ABO Energy WP Hünxe	Power plant	26.4 MW	Planned	6.1 km
WP Hünxer Heide	Power plant	12 MW	Operating	7.3 km
KWK-Kraftwerk Rheinberg	CO2 emitter	255,045 tCO2e	—	12 km
Soda	CO2 emitter	315,117 tCO2e	—	12 km
Heizkraftwerk Walsum	CO2 emitter	1,543,124 tCO2e	—	13 km
ProHiPerSi	Processing plant	—	—	16 km
Nitrogen natuurvergunning decision, Aalten (prb-2025-19031)	Permit notice	—	—	30 km
Nitrogen natuurvergunning draft decision, Aalten (prb-2025-12470)	Permit notice	—	—	30 km

Grid operators and place

Amprion GmbHGrid operator
RWE AktiengesellschaftGrid operator
Substations in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany929
Substations in Germany5,311
Germany: country profile

Other substations in North Rhine-Westphalia

All 929 substations in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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 2037/2045 (2025), zweiter Entwurf | Übertragungsnetzbetreiber (M) CC-BY-4.0. Netzentwicklungsplan Strom: digital project library, CC BY 4.0.
Officiële Bekendmakingen. Officiële Bekendmakingen, CC0 1.0.
OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass). OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass), ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors.