Substation · Langenfeld (Rhld.), North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Umspannwerk Opladen (Opladen substation)
Umspannwerk Opladen is a 380 kV substation in Langenfeld (Rhld.), North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, connected by RWE Aktiengesellschaft and Amprion 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 Netzentwicklungsplan Strom: digital project library · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Location | Langenfeld (Rhld.) (point in boundary) | BKG Verwaltungsgebiete 1:250 000 (VG250) · DL-DE-BY-2.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Grid operator | RWE Aktiengesellschaft | 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 |
| Planned reinforcement | 380 kV shunt reactor (1x) (due 2030, transmission network, NEP measure M412b16, 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 (levels 380, 220, 110 kV) | OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass) · record · ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Voltage | 380 kV | Netzentwicklungsplan Strom: digital project library · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 51.0699, 6.9659 | OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass) · record · ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
Research on this substation and the land around it.Its headroom, connection queue and congestion, who owns the land around it, and an introduction to those owners.
Request researchAlso recorded as
2 sources record Station Opladen; 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 Opladen | asset:osm:way-22761839 | OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass) | — |
| Opladen substation | asset:nep:opladen | Netzentwicklungsplan Strom: point measures (Punktmaßnahmen) | Same name and Land |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this substation: 135 power plants (81 operating, 8,369 MW), 36 CO2 emitters (57,432,090 tCO2e), 13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Datacenter One | Data center | — | — | 4.0 km |
| Heizkraftwerk Merkenich | CO2 emitter | 196,824 tCO2e | — | 5.8 km |
| LEV KWG | Power plant | 13.7 MW | Operating | 6.0 km |
| NetCologne data center, Köln | Data center | — | — | 7.5 km |
| Ammoniak-Anlage, Geb. O 07 | CO2 emitter | 377,590 tCO2e | — | 8.4 km |
| Kracker 4, Geb. T21 | CO2 emitter | 748,653 tCO2e | — | 8.4 km |
| GKW | Power plant | 10 MW | Operating | 8.8 km |
| Dormagen | Power plant | 562 MW | Operating | 11 km |
| Surfplanet GmbH | Data center | — | — | 11 km |
Grid operators and place
- RWE AktiengesellschaftGrid operator
- Amprion GmbHGrid operator
- Substations in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany929
- Substations in Germany5,311
- Germany: country profile
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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 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.
- Netzentwicklungsplan Strom 2037/2045 (2025), zweiter Entwurf | Übertragungsnetzbetreiber (M) CC-BY-4.0. Netzentwicklungsplan Strom: digital project library, CC BY 4.0.
- © OpenStreetMap contributors. OpenStreetMap data centers, ODbL 1.0.
- OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass). OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass), ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors.