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Cameroon · electricity network
Cameroon power grid
OverWatts maps 1,011 km of Cameroon's electricity transmission network across 41 line segments and 0 substations, the 110th most-mapped grid of 153 countries. Its backbone is high voltage (220–379 kV), carrying 1,011 km — 100% of the mapped length, with the highest tagged voltage at 225 kV. That works out to 2.2 km per 1,000 km² of land — sparse OpenStreetMap coverage, ahead of 8% of mapped countries. No cross-border capacity is recorded today; 200 MW is planned.
OpenStreetMap coverage
This grades how completely OpenStreetMap has drawn Cameroon'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 5% an operator tag.
Mapped line length by voltage
- 220–379 kV1,011 km 100%
41 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 Cameroon
- Chad200 MW · planned
0 MW existing · 200 MW 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 Cameroon's network
- EDC2 100%
Segment counts from OSM `operator` tags, merged across spellings. Present on 5% of segments — this ranks who is recorded, not market share.
How Cameroon compares · mapped grid by country
- 1. People's Republic of China624,300 km
- 108. Iceland1,075 km
- 109. Nepal1,041 km
- 110. Cameroon1,011 km
- 111. Republic of the Congo1,007 km
- 112. Sri Lanka969 km
Frequently asked
- How big is Cameroon's transmission network?
- OverWatts maps 1,011 km of transmission line in Cameroon, across 41 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 Cameroon's grid?
- Most of the mapped network is high voltage (220–379 kV): 1,011 km of 1,011 km. The highest voltage tagged anywhere in the country is 225 kV.
- How complete is the grid map for Cameroon?
- Sparse — 2.2 km of mapped line per 1,000 km² of land, ahead of 8% 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 Cameroon?
- EDC are tagged as operators on mapped segments. Operator tags are present on 5% of Cameroon's segments, so this ranks who is *recorded*, not market share.
- What interconnectors connect Cameroon to its neighbours?
- None recorded as operating. 200 MW is planned across 1 pathway.
Elsewhere in Cameroon
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.