Substation · Westerkappeln, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Umspannwerk Westerkappeln (Westerkappeln substation)
Umspannwerk Westerkappeln is a 220 kV substation in Westerkappeln, 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 | North Rhine-Westphalia | OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass) · record · ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Location | Westerkappeln (point in boundary) | BKG Verwaltungsgebiete 1:250 000 (VG250) · DL-DE-BY-2.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Grid operator | Amprion GmbH | OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass) · record · ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Voltage | 220 kV | OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass) · record · ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 52.2776, 7.8882 | OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass) · record · ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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Within 50 km of this substation: 181 power plants (80 operating, 2,017 MW), 6 data centers and 4 CO2 emitters (2,597,278 tCO2e), measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EA-1553529 Westerkappeln Velpe | Power plant | 16.6 MW | Planned | 2.8 km |
| Gebäude 94/95 | Data center | — | — | 9.2 km |
| EVA | Power plant | 30 MW | Closed | 11 km |
| PVA Lengerich | Power plant | 10 MW | Planned | 12 km |
| Drehofen 4 Lengerich | CO2 emitter | 167,323 tCO2e | — | 12 km |
| Drehofenanlage 8 Lengerich | CO2 emitter | 621,978 tCO2e | — | 12 km |
| DMO | Data center | — | — | 21 km |
| Fiducia & GAD IT AG data center, Münster | Data center | — | — | 39 km |
| Heizkraftwerk Hafen der Stadtwerke Münster GmbH | CO2 emitter | 184,873 tCO2e | — | 40 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.
- © OpenStreetMap contributors. OpenStreetMap data centers, ODbL 1.0.
- OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass). OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass), ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors.