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Burkina Faso · electricity network
Burkina Faso power grid
OverWatts maps 723 km of Burkina Faso's electricity transmission network across 6 line segments and 0 substations, the 121st most-mapped grid of 153 countries. Its backbone is high voltage (220–379 kV), carrying 723 km — 100% of the mapped length, with the highest tagged voltage at 225 kV. That works out to 2.7 km per 1,000 km² of land — sparse OpenStreetMap coverage, ahead of 10% of mapped countries. It is connected to 2 neighbouring grids by 213 MW of existing cross-border transfer capacity, with a further 1,274 MW planned.
OpenStreetMap coverage
This grades how completely OpenStreetMap has drawn Burkina Faso'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. 50% of segments carry a real line name and 67% an operator tag.
Mapped line length by voltage
- 220–379 kV723 km 100%
6 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 Burkina Faso
- Côte d'Ivoire113 MW
- Ghana100 MW
- Benin450 MW · planned
- Niger450 MW · planned
- Togo374 MW · planned
213 MW existing · 1.3 GW planned · capacities from the Global Transmission Database v0.1 (CC BY 4.0), existing as of 2023
On the interactive map
Operators tagged on Burkina Faso's network
- SONABEL4 100%
Segment counts from OSM `operator` tags, merged across spellings. Present on 67% of segments — this ranks who is recorded, not market share.
How Burkina Faso compares · mapped grid by country
- 1. People's Republic of China624,300 km
- 119. Nicaragua776 km
- 120. Montenegro753 km
- 121. Burkina Faso723 km
- 122. Puerto Rico690 km
- 123. Bhutan673 km
Frequently asked
- How big is Burkina Faso's transmission network?
- OverWatts maps 723 km of transmission line in Burkina Faso, across 6 segments, plus 0 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 Burkina Faso's grid?
- Most of the mapped network is high voltage (220–379 kV): 723 km of 723 km. The highest voltage tagged anywhere in the country is 225 kV.
- How complete is the grid map for Burkina Faso?
- Sparse — 2.7 km of mapped line per 1,000 km² of land, ahead of 10% 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 Burkina Faso?
- SONABEL are tagged as operators on mapped segments. Operator tags are present on 67% of Burkina Faso's segments, so this ranks who is *recorded*, not market share.
- What interconnectors connect Burkina Faso to its neighbours?
- 213 MW of cross-border transfer capacity to Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, plus 1,274 MW planned. Capacities are from the Global Transmission Database (v1.0, 2023).
Elsewhere in Burkina Faso
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.