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Montenegro · electricity network
Montenegro power grid
OverWatts maps 753 km of Montenegro's electricity transmission network across 81 line segments and 3 substations, the 120th most-mapped grid of 153 countries. Its backbone is extra-high voltage (380–764 kV), carrying 478 km — 63% of the mapped length, with the highest tagged voltage at 400 kV. That works out to 56.1 km per 1,000 km² of land — strong OpenStreetMap coverage, ahead of 91% of mapped countries. It is connected to 5 neighbouring grids by 2,883 MW of existing cross-border transfer capacity, with a further 2,440 MW planned.
OpenStreetMap coverage
This grades how completely OpenStreetMap has drawn Montenegro'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 kV478 km 63%
- 220–379 kV276 km 37%
81 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 Montenegro
- Bosnia and Herzegovina800 MW
- Italy600 MW
- Serbia580 MW
- Kosovo553 MW
- Albania350 MW
- Serbia840 MW · planned
- Italy600 MW · planned
- Serbia500 MW · planned
- Serbia500 MW · planned
2.9 GW existing · 2.4 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 Montenegro compares · mapped grid by country
- 1. People's Republic of China624,300 km
- 118. Jordan782 km
- 119. Nicaragua776 km
- 120. Montenegro753 km
- 121. Burkina Faso723 km
- 122. Puerto Rico690 km
Frequently asked
- How big is Montenegro's transmission network?
- OverWatts maps 753 km of transmission line in Montenegro, across 81 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 Montenegro's grid?
- Most of the mapped network is extra-high voltage (380–764 kV): 478 km of 753 km. The highest voltage tagged anywhere in the country is 400 kV.
- How complete is the grid map for Montenegro?
- Strong — 56.1 km of mapped line per 1,000 km² of land, ahead of 91% 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 Montenegro to its neighbours?
- 2,883 MW of cross-border transfer capacity to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy, Serbia, Kosovo, Albania, plus 2,440 MW planned. Capacities are from the Global Transmission Database (v1.0, 2023).
Elsewhere in Montenegro
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.