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Democratic Republic of the Congo · electricity network

Democratic Republic of the Congo power grid

OverWatts maps 5,746 km of the Democratic Republic of the Congo's electricity transmission network across 131 line segments and 3 substations, the 50th most-mapped grid of 153 countries. Its backbone is extra-high voltage (380–764 kV), carrying 3,629 km — 63% of the mapped length, with the highest tagged voltage at 500 kV. That works out to 2.5 km per 1,000 km² of land — sparse OpenStreetMap coverage, ahead of 9% of mapped countries.

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5,746 km
Mapped transmission line
3
Substations
#50
of 153 mapped grids
500 kV
Highest voltage

OpenStreetMap coverage

Sparse2.5 km / 1,000 km²ahead of 9% of 153 mapped countries

This grades how completely OpenStreetMap has drawn the Democratic Republic of the Congo'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. 67% of segments carry a real line name and 37% an operator tag.

Mapped line length by voltage

131 segments · a segment is credited to the country containing its midpoint, so a border-crossing line counts once, on one side.

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Load against the network

2.5 GW
Operating generation
1915
km of line per substation
2.5
km per 1,000 km²

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 the Democratic Republic of the Congo's network

Segment counts from OSM `operator` tags, merged across spellings. Present on 37% of segments — this ranks who is recorded, not market share.

How the Democratic Republic of the Congo compares · mapped grid by country

Frequently asked

How big is the Democratic Republic of the Congo's transmission network?
OverWatts maps 5,746 km of transmission line in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, across 131 segments, plus 3 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 the Democratic Republic of the Congo's grid?
Most of the mapped network is extra-high voltage (380–764 kV): 3,629 km of 5,746 km. The highest voltage tagged anywhere in the country is 500 kV.
How complete is the grid map for the Democratic Republic of the Congo?
Sparse — 2.5 km of mapped line per 1,000 km² of land, ahead of 9% 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 the Democratic Republic of the Congo?
SNEL, Rwanda Energy Group (REG) are tagged as operators on mapped segments. Operator tags are present on 37% of the Democratic Republic of the Congo's segments, so this ranks who is *recorded*, not market share.

Elsewhere in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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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.