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Libya · electricity network
Libya power grid
OverWatts maps 11,200 km of Libya's electricity transmission network across 564 line segments and 2 substations, the 34th most-mapped grid of 153 countries. Its backbone is high voltage (220–379 kV), carrying 7,978 km — 71% of the mapped length, with the highest tagged voltage at 400 kV. That works out to 6.8 km per 1,000 km² of land — partial OpenStreetMap coverage, ahead of 24% of mapped countries. It is connected to 2 neighbouring grids by 540 MW of existing cross-border transfer capacity, with a further 2,500 MW planned.
OpenStreetMap coverage
This grades how completely OpenStreetMap has drawn Libya'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 4% an operator tag.
Mapped line length by voltage
- 380–764 kV3,232 km 29%
- 220–379 kV7,978 km 71%
564 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 Libya
540 MW existing · 2.5 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.
Operators tagged on Libya's network
- GECOL.LY21 100%
Segment counts from OSM `operator` tags, merged across spellings. Present on 4% of segments — this ranks who is recorded, not market share.
How Libya compares · mapped grid by country
- 1. People's Republic of China624,300 km
- 32. Poland11,600 km
- 33. Uzbekistan11,400 km
- 34. Libya11,200 km
- 35. Ethiopia9,988 km
- 36. United Kingdom9,612 km
Frequently asked
- How big is Libya's transmission network?
- OverWatts maps 11,200 km of transmission line in Libya, across 564 segments, plus 2 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 Libya's grid?
- Most of the mapped network is high voltage (220–379 kV): 7,978 km of 11,200 km. The highest voltage tagged anywhere in the country is 400 kV.
- How complete is the grid map for Libya?
- Partial — 6.8 km of mapped line per 1,000 km² of land, ahead of 24% 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 Libya?
- GECOL.LY are tagged as operators on mapped segments. Operator tags are present on 4% of Libya's segments, so this ranks who is *recorded*, not market share.
- What interconnectors connect Libya to its neighbours?
- 540 MW of cross-border transfer capacity to Tunisia, Egypt, plus 2,500 MW planned. Capacities are from the Global Transmission Database (v1.0, 2023).
Elsewhere in Libya
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.