Substation · Mülheim an der Ruhr, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Umspannwerk Saarn (Saarn substation)
Umspannwerk Saarn is a 110 kV substation in Mülheim an der Ruhr, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, connected by Westnetz 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 | Mülheim an der Ruhr (point in boundary) | BKG Verwaltungsgebiete 1:250 000 (VG250) · DL-DE-BY-2.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Location | North Rhine-Westphalia | OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass) · record · ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Grid operator | Westnetz GmbH | 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 | 51.4042, 6.8598 | 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 researchNearby
Within 50 km of this substation: 147 power plants (78 operating, 9,440 MW), 42 CO2 emitters (1 operating), 15 data centers, 9 permit notices and 2 processing plants, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| medl BHKW Broich Modul | Power plant | 10.6 MW | Operating | 2.7 km |
| Netzersatzanlage D0036 | Power plant | 12.4 MW | Operating | 7.1 km |
| HKW III/C Modul | Power plant | 42.3 MW | Planned | 7.8 km |
| HKW IIIA GT | CO2 emitter | 169,503 tCO2e | — | 8.3 km |
| Hochofenanlage | CO2 emitter | 208,259 tCO2e | — | 8.4 km |
| Kraftwerk zur Stromerzeugung | CO2 emitter | 309,459 tCO2e | — | 8.4 km |
| ProHiPerSi | Processing plant | — | — | 14 km |
| Wiit AG DUS | Data center | — | — | 16 km |
| Equinix DU1 | Data center | — | — | 21 km |
Grid operator and place
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Candidate sites around this substation
3 sites of land near Station Saarn have it as nearest substation. Each site page gives its area, its distance to the substation and its site score; owners are on request.
- 50 ha site at Gemarkung Broich, Flur 26, Flurstück 400.78 km · score 47
- 50 ha site at Gemarkung Saarn, Flur 16, Flurstück 651.2 km · score 40
- 53 ha site at Gemarkung Saarn, Flur 52, Flurstück 2341.66 km · score 33
Other substations in North Rhine-Westphalia
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 Union, European Commission (DG GROW). EU CRMA strategic projects, CC BY 4.0.
- 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.