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Ecuador · electricity network
Ecuador power grid
OverWatts maps 3,012 km of Ecuador's electricity transmission network across 222 line segments and 4 substations, the 75th most-mapped grid of 153 countries. Its backbone is high voltage (220–379 kV), carrying 2,456 km — 82% of the mapped length, with the highest tagged voltage at 500 kV. That works out to 12 km per 1,000 km² of land — partial OpenStreetMap coverage, ahead of 42% of mapped countries. It is connected to 2 neighbouring grids by 463 MW of existing cross-border transfer capacity, with a further 2,050 MW planned.
OpenStreetMap coverage
This grades how completely OpenStreetMap has drawn Ecuador'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. 1% of segments carry a real line name and 39% an operator tag.
Mapped line length by voltage
- 380–764 kV556 km 18%
- 220–379 kV2,456 km 82%
222 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 Ecuador
463 MW existing · 2.0 GW 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 Ecuador's network
- CELEC-Transelectric83 95%
- Transelectric3 3%
- CELEC1 1%
Segment counts from OSM `operator` tags, merged across spellings. Present on 39% of segments — this ranks who is recorded, not market share.
How Ecuador compares · mapped grid by country
- 1. People's Republic of China624,300 km
- 73. Laos3,200 km
- 74. Greece3,062 km
- 75. Ecuador3,012 km
- 76. Tajikistan2,890 km
- 77. Tunisia2,817 km
Frequently asked
- How big is Ecuador's transmission network?
- OverWatts maps 3,012 km of transmission line in Ecuador, across 222 segments, plus 4 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 Ecuador's grid?
- Most of the mapped network is high voltage (220–379 kV): 2,456 km of 3,012 km. The highest voltage tagged anywhere in the country is 500 kV.
- How complete is the grid map for Ecuador?
- Partial — 12 km of mapped line per 1,000 km² of land, ahead of 42% 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 Ecuador?
- CELEC-Transelectric, Transelectric, CELEC are tagged as operators on mapped segments. Operator tags are present on 39% of Ecuador's segments, so this ranks who is *recorded*, not market share.
- What interconnectors connect Ecuador to its neighbours?
- 463 MW of cross-border transfer capacity to Colombia, Peru, plus 2,050 MW planned. Capacities are from the Global Transmission Database (v1.0, 2023).
Elsewhere in Ecuador
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.