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Kuwait · electricity network
Kuwait power grid
OverWatts maps 1,430 km of Kuwait's electricity transmission network across 92 line segments and 3 substations, the 99th most-mapped grid of 153 countries. Its backbone is high voltage (220–379 kV), carrying 881 km — 62% of the mapped length, with the highest tagged voltage at 400 kV. That works out to 85.9 km per 1,000 km² of land — strong OpenStreetMap coverage, ahead of 98% of mapped countries. It is connected to 1 neighbouring grid by 1,200 MW of existing cross-border transfer capacity.
OpenStreetMap coverage
This grades how completely OpenStreetMap has drawn Kuwait'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 kV549 km 38%
- 220–379 kV881 km 62%
92 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 Kuwait
- Saudi Arabia1.2 GW
1.2 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 Kuwait compares · mapped grid by country
- 1. People's Republic of China624,300 km
- 97. Netherlands1,520 km
- 98. Armenia1,507 km
- 99. Kuwait1,430 km
- 100. Uruguay1,323 km
- 101. Estonia1,322 km
Frequently asked
- How big is Kuwait's transmission network?
- OverWatts maps 1,430 km of transmission line in Kuwait, across 92 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 Kuwait's grid?
- Most of the mapped network is high voltage (220–379 kV): 881 km of 1,430 km. The highest voltage tagged anywhere in the country is 400 kV.
- How complete is the grid map for Kuwait?
- Strong — 85.9 km of mapped line per 1,000 km² of land, ahead of 98% 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 Kuwait to its neighbours?
- 1,200 MW of cross-border transfer capacity to Saudi Arabia. Capacities are from the Global Transmission Database (v1.0, 2023).
Elsewhere in Kuwait
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.