Substation · North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Station Velau
Station Velau is a 110 kV substation in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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 |
| Voltage | 110 kV | OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass) · record · ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 50.7893, 6.2256 | OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass) · record · ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
Research on this substation and its owner.Who owns it up to the parent company, its headroom, congestion and the land around it, and an introduction to the owner.
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Within 50 km of this substation: 237 power plants (149 operating, 9,368 MW), 171 permit notices, 13 CO2 emitters (3 operating), 9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| hex/AC | Data center | — | — | 6.4 km |
| EU BEST STRAT: Battery Economical Sustainable (Recycling-) Technology | Processing plant | — | — | 6.5 km |
| EURaix | Data center | — | — | 6.8 km |
| Kraftwerk Weisweiler | CO2 emitter | 8,311,754 tCO2e | — | 7.8 km |
| Weisweiler | Power plant | 1,319 MW | Operating | 7.8 km |
| Windpark Würselen Repowering | Power plant | 18 MW | Operating | 7.9 km |
| EURaix Evolution | Data center | — | — | 7.9 km |
| Eschweiler Nord | Power plant | 12.7 MW | Operating | 8.3 km |
| Battery storage omgevingsvergunning application, Heerlen (gmb-2026-376025) | Permit notice | — | — | 15 km |
Place
Candidate sites around this substation
4 sites of land near Station Velau have it as nearest substation. Each site page gives its area, its distance to the substation and its site score; owners are on request.
- 85 ha site at Gemarkung Eschweiler, Flur 2, Flurstück 360.78 km · score 59
- 155 ha site at Gemarkung Eschweiler, Flur 2, Flurstück 341.24 km · score 58
- 88 ha site at Gemarkung Stolberg, Flur 36, Flurstück 2771.8 km · score 43
- 58 ha site at Gemarkung Eschweiler, Flur 49, Flurstück 1361.59 km · score 36
Other substations in North Rhine-Westphalia
Data on this page
- © 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.
- Officiële Bekendmakingen. Officiële Bekendmakingen, CC0 1.0.
- © OpenStreetMap contributors. OpenStreetMap data centers, ODbL 1.0.
- OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass). OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass), ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors.