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Egypt · electricity network
Egypt power grid
OverWatts maps 15,500 km of Egypt's electricity transmission network across 828 line segments and 4 substations, the 23rd most-mapped grid of 153 countries. Its backbone is high voltage (220–379 kV), carrying 9,827 km — 63% of the mapped length, with the highest tagged voltage at 500 kV. That works out to 15.6 km per 1,000 km² of land — moderate OpenStreetMap coverage, ahead of 48% of mapped countries. It is connected to 3 neighbouring grids by 840 MW of existing cross-border transfer capacity, with a further 11,500 MW planned.
OpenStreetMap coverage
This grades how completely OpenStreetMap has drawn Egypt'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 kV5,720 km 37%
- 220–379 kV9,827 km 63%
828 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 Egypt
- Jordan300 MW
- Sudan300 MW
- Libya240 MW
- Greece5.0 GW · planned
- Saudi Arabia3.0 GW · planned
- Cyprus2.0 GW · planned
- Sudan1.0 GW · planned
- Libya500 MW · planned
840 MW existing · 11.5 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.
How Egypt compares · mapped grid by country
- 1. People's Republic of China624,300 km
- 21. Italy18,500 km
- 22. Germany17,000 km
- 23. Egypt15,500 km
- 24. Sweden14,700 km
- 25. Pakistan14,600 km
Frequently asked
- How big is Egypt's transmission network?
- OverWatts maps 15,500 km of transmission line in Egypt, across 828 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 Egypt's grid?
- Most of the mapped network is high voltage (220–379 kV): 9,827 km of 15,500 km. The highest voltage tagged anywhere in the country is 500 kV.
- How complete is the grid map for Egypt?
- Moderate — 15.6 km of mapped line per 1,000 km² of land, ahead of 48% 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 Egypt to its neighbours?
- 840 MW of cross-border transfer capacity to Jordan, Sudan, Libya, plus 11,500 MW planned. Capacities are from the Global Transmission Database (v1.0, 2023).
Elsewhere in Egypt
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.