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Azerbaijan · electricity network
Azerbaijan power grid
OverWatts maps 4,192 km of Azerbaijan's electricity transmission network across 273 line segments and 14 substations, the 63rd most-mapped grid of 153 countries. Its backbone is high voltage (220–379 kV), carrying 3,679 km — 88% of the mapped length, with the highest tagged voltage at 500 kV. That works out to 46 km per 1,000 km² of land — strong OpenStreetMap coverage, ahead of 85% of mapped countries. It is connected to 2 neighbouring grids by 2,670 MW of existing cross-border transfer capacity.
OpenStreetMap coverage
This grades how completely OpenStreetMap has drawn Azerbaijan'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. 5% of segments carry a real line name and 0% an operator tag.
Mapped line length by voltage
- 380–764 kV513 km 12%
- 220–379 kV3,679 km 88%
273 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 Azerbaijan
2.7 GW existing · 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.
How Azerbaijan compares · mapped grid by country
- 1. People's Republic of China624,300 km
- 61. Paraguay4,411 km
- 62. Mozambique4,352 km
- 63. Azerbaijan4,192 km
- 64. Zimbabwe4,165 km
- 65. Bangladesh4,119 km
Frequently asked
- How big is Azerbaijan's transmission network?
- OverWatts maps 4,192 km of transmission line in Azerbaijan, across 273 segments, plus 14 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 Azerbaijan's grid?
- Most of the mapped network is high voltage (220–379 kV): 3,679 km of 4,192 km. The highest voltage tagged anywhere in the country is 500 kV.
- How complete is the grid map for Azerbaijan?
- Strong — 46 km of mapped line per 1,000 km² of land, ahead of 85% 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.
- What interconnectors connect Azerbaijan to its neighbours?
- 2,670 MW of cross-border transfer capacity to Georgia, Iran. Capacities are from the Global Transmission Database (v1.0, 2023).
Elsewhere in Azerbaijan
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.