Substation · Bergheim, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Umspannwerk Paffendorf (Paffendorf substation)
Umspannwerk Paffendorf is a 380 kV substation in Bergheim, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, connected by 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 | Bergheim (point in boundary) | BKG Verwaltungsgebiete 1:250 000 (VG250) · DL-DE-BY-2.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| 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 |
| Grid operator | Amprion GmbH | 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 |
| Planned reinforcement | Short-circuit strength upgrade (due 2030, transmission network, NEP measure M115, project P612, added by this plan, confirmed by the previous plan) | Netzentwicklungsplan Strom: digital project library · CC BY 4.0 · 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 | 50.9525, 6.5960 | 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 Paffendorf; 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 Paffendorf | asset:osm:way-26927264 | OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass) | — |
| Paffendorf substation | asset:nep:paffendorf | Netzentwicklungsplan Strom: point measures (Punktmaßnahmen) | Same name and Land |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this substation: 218 power plants (132 operating, 8,923 MW), 62 permit notices, 28 CO2 emitters (2 operating), 17 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elsd | Power plant | 10.1 MW | Operating | 2.3 km |
| WP Bergheim Wiedenfelder Höhe - Erweiterung | Power plant | 17.1 MW | Operating | 4.8 km |
| KWK-Anlage: Generator 2 | Power plant | 24.3 MW | Operating | 4.9 km |
| Herdofenanlage Fortuna-Nord | CO2 emitter | 421,545 tCO2e | — | 6.2 km |
| Kraftwerk Niederaußem | CO2 emitter | 11,356,228 tCO2e | — | 6.6 km |
| Kraftwerk Neurath | CO2 emitter | 12,073,464 tCO2e | — | 9.6 km |
| Data center, Jülich (OSM way 194023609) | Data center | — | — | 15 km |
| NetCologne data center, Köln | Data center | — | — | 22 km |
| Rechenzentrum Hartmann GmbH & Co. KG | Data center | — | — | 29 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 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.