Substation · Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Umspannwerk Benhausen (Benhausen substation)
Umspannwerk Benhausen is a 110 kV substation in Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, connected by Avacon Netz 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 | Paderborn (point in boundary) | BKG Verwaltungsgebiete 1:250 000 (VG250) · DL-DE-BY-2.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Grid operator | Avacon Netz 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 | 51.7281, 8.8302 | 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.
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Within 50 km of this substation: 261 power plants (97 operating, 2,729 MW), 4 CO2 emitters (1,789,002 tCO2e) and 2 data centers, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 8, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WP Neuenbeken | Power plant | 11.1 MW | Planned | 2.2 km |
| WP Dahl Ost | Power plant | 20 MW | Operating | 3.3 km |
| Flütwind | Power plant | 65.3 MW | Operating | 4.0 km |
| VegaSystems NCPB | Data center | — | — | 8.3 km |
| DY-Werk Geseke | CO2 emitter | 261,429 tCO2e | — | 25 km |
| Zementwerk Geseke | CO2 emitter | 566,283 tCO2e | — | 25 km |
| Data center, North Rhine-Westphalia (OSM way 88425865) | Data center | — | — | 32 km |
| Spenner Drehofenanlage | CO2 emitter | 556,941 tCO2e | — | 37 km |
Grid operator and place
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Candidate sites around this substation
2 sites of land near Umspannwerk Benhausen have it as nearest substation. Each site page gives its area, its distance to the substation and its site score; owners are on request.
- 152 ha site at Gemarkung Paderborn, Flur 34, Flurstück 1251.44 km · score 55
- 50 ha site at Gemarkung Paderborn, Flur 33, Flurstück 8801.18 km · score 40
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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.