Browse the atlas
Asset classes
- Transmission Line80,968
- Power Plant32,429
- Substation / Converter7,614
- Oil & Gas Field7,055
- Coal / Uranium Mine5,382
- Pipeline4,951
- Cement Plant3,513
- Data Centre3,283
- Iron & Steel Plant1,293
- LNG Terminal1,198
- Grid Storage965
- Iron Ore Mine949
- Chemical Plant868
- Interconnector704
- Export Terminal519
- Refinery279
- Storage / Tank Farm38
- Oil / Commodity Contract19
- Hydrogen Project18
- Carbon Capture (CCS)16
Chokepoints
Angola · electricity network
Angola power grid
OverWatts maps 4,588 km of Angola's electricity transmission network across 123 line segments and 10 substations, the 58th most-mapped grid of 153 countries. Its backbone is high voltage (220–379 kV), carrying 2,522 km — 55% of the mapped length, with the highest tagged voltage at 400 kV. That works out to 3.7 km per 1,000 km² of land — sparse OpenStreetMap coverage, ahead of 15% of mapped countries. No cross-border capacity is recorded today; 1,200 MW is planned.
OpenStreetMap coverage
This grades how completely OpenStreetMap has drawn Angola's network — not how much network exists. Large, sparsely-populated countries score low for geographic reasons alone, and every kilometre here is mapped length, so the totals are a floor rather than an operator-reported figure. 46% of segments carry a real line name and 11% an operator tag.
Mapped line length by voltage
- 380–764 kV2,066 km 45%
- 220–379 kV2,522 km 55%
123 segments · a segment is credited to the country containing its midpoint, so a border-crossing line counts once, on one side.
Cross-border links from Angola
- Congo (Kinshasa)600 MW · planned
- Namibia600 MW · planned
0 MW existing · 1.2 GW planned · capacities from the Global Transmission Database v0.1 (CC BY 4.0), existing as of 2023
On the interactive map
Load against the network
Where there is room to connect a new load depends on published hosting capacity, which most operators release only as their own map. OverWatts does not yet ingest those feeds, so these are the density measures the open data supports — generation and mapped demand against mapped network — not a headroom figure.
Operators tagged on Angola's network
Segment counts from OSM `operator` tags, merged across spellings. Present on 11% of segments — this ranks who is recorded, not market share.
How Angola compares · mapped grid by country
- 1. People's Republic of China624,300 km
- 56. United Arab Emirates5,097 km
- 57. Bulgaria4,909 km
- 58. Angola4,588 km
- 59. Czech Republic4,469 km
- 60. South Korea4,464 km
Frequently asked
- How big is Angola's transmission network?
- OverWatts maps 4,588 km of transmission line in Angola, across 123 segments, plus 10 substations. This is mapped length from OpenStreetMap, not an operator-reported total — where OSM is incomplete the figure is a floor, never a ceiling.
- What voltage is Angola's grid?
- Most of the mapped network is high voltage (220–379 kV): 2,522 km of 4,588 km. The highest voltage tagged anywhere in the country is 400 kV.
- How complete is the grid map for Angola?
- Sparse — 3.7 km of mapped line per 1,000 km² of land, ahead of 15% of the 153 countries with any mapped grid. Coverage grades how completely OpenStreetMap has drawn the network, not how much network exists; large, sparsely-populated countries score low for geographic reasons alone.
- Who operates the grid in Angola?
- RNT, Kanazuro Electric S.A, Rede Nacional de Transporte de Electricidade are tagged as operators on mapped segments. Operator tags are present on 11% of Angola's segments, so this ranks who is *recorded*, not market share.
- What interconnectors connect Angola to its neighbours?
- None recorded as operating. 1,200 MW is planned across 2 pathways.
Elsewhere in Angola
Network geometry: OpenStreetMap (ODbL) © OpenStreetMap contributors, ingested and measured by OverWatts · derived 2026-07-26. Counts every mapped line of 220 kV and above; the map layer draws the ≥380 kV backbone only, so it shows less than is measured here.