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Belarus · electricity network
Belarus power grid
OverWatts maps 6,884 km of Belarus's electricity transmission network across 332 line segments and 40 substations, the 42nd most-mapped grid of 153 countries. Its backbone is high voltage (220–379 kV), carrying 6,508 km — 95% of the mapped length, with the highest tagged voltage at 750 kV. That works out to 33.1 km per 1,000 km² of land — moderate OpenStreetMap coverage, ahead of 73% of mapped countries. It is connected to 2 neighbouring grids by 4,291 MW of existing cross-border transfer capacity.
OpenStreetMap coverage
This grades how completely OpenStreetMap has drawn Belarus'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. 0% of segments carry a real line name and 0% an operator tag.
Mapped line length by voltage
- 380–764 kV377 km 5%
- 220–379 kV6,508 km 95%
332 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 Belarus
4.3 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 Belarus compares · mapped grid by country
- 1. People's Republic of China624,300 km
- 40. Syria7,365 km
- 41. Malaysia7,290 km
- 42. Belarus6,884 km
- 43. Nigeria6,822 km
- 44. Finland6,783 km
Frequently asked
- How big is Belarus's transmission network?
- OverWatts maps 6,884 km of transmission line in Belarus, across 332 segments, plus 40 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 Belarus's grid?
- Most of the mapped network is high voltage (220–379 kV): 6,508 km of 6,884 km. The highest voltage tagged anywhere in the country is 750 kV.
- How complete is the grid map for Belarus?
- Moderate — 33.1 km of mapped line per 1,000 km² of land, ahead of 73% 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 Belarus to its neighbours?
- 4,291 MW of cross-border transfer capacity to Russia, Lithuania. Capacities are from the Global Transmission Database (v1.0, 2023).
Elsewhere in Belarus
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.