Substation · Dorsten, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Umspannwerk Wessendorf (Wessendorf substation)
Umspannwerk Wessendorf is a 110 kV substation in Dorsten, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, connected by Umspannwerk Wessendorf 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 | Dorsten (point in boundary) | BKG Verwaltungsgebiete 1:250 000 (VG250) · DL-DE-BY-2.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Grid operator | Umspannwerk Wessendorf 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 | 51.7880, 7.0190 | OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass) · record · ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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Within 50 km of this substation: 202 power plants (113 operating, 4,310 MW), 118 permit notices, 32 CO2 emitters (4 operating), 7 data centers 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lembecker Elven | Power plant | 36 MW | Planned | 2.7 km |
| Wessendorf | Power plant | 48 MW | Operating | 3.2 km |
| Windpark Dorsten Torfvenn | Power plant | 16.5 MW | Operating | 3.9 km |
| Kraftwerk VI | CO2 emitter | 491,142 tCO2e | — | 13 km |
| Kraftwerk VII | CO2 emitter | 203,238 tCO2e | — | 13 km |
| Wasserstoff-Anlage | CO2 emitter | 184,414 tCO2e | — | 13 km |
| Nitrogen natuurvergunning decision, Winterswijk (prb-2025-20128) | Permit notice | — | — | 24 km |
| Nitrogen natuurvergunning draft decision, Winterswijk (prb-2025-16884) | Permit notice | — | — | 24 km |
| Solar park omgevingsvergunning decision, Winterswijk (gmb-2025-344703) | Permit notice | — | — | 24 km |
Grid operator and place
Candidate sites around this substation
1 site of land near Umspannwerk Wessendorf has 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 Lembeck, Flur 4, Flurstück 20.73 km · score 48
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 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 power infrastructure (Overpass). OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass), ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors.