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North Macedonia power grid

OverWatts maps 598 km of North Macedonia's electricity transmission network across 41 line segments and 3 substations, the 125th most-mapped grid of 153 countries. Its backbone is extra-high voltage (380–764 kV), carrying 515 km — 86% of the mapped length, with the highest tagged voltage at 400 kV. That works out to 23.9 km per 1,000 km² of land — moderate OpenStreetMap coverage, ahead of 64% of mapped countries. It is connected to 5 neighbouring grids by 3,270 MW of existing cross-border transfer capacity, with a further 1,000 MW planned.

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598 km
Mapped transmission line
3
Substations
#125
of 153 mapped grids
3.3 GW
cross-border · 5 neighbours
400 kV
Highest voltage

OpenStreetMap coverage

Moderate23.9 km / 1,000 km²ahead of 64% of 153 mapped countries

This grades how completely OpenStreetMap has drawn North Macedonia'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. 7% of segments carry a real line name and 2% an operator tag.

Mapped line length by voltage

41 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 North Macedonia

3.3 GW existing · 1.0 GW planned · capacities from the Global Transmission Database v0.1 (CC BY 4.0), existing as of 2023

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Load against the network

1.5 GW
Operating generation
199
km of line per substation
23.9
km per 1,000 km²

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 North Macedonia's network

Segment counts from OSM `operator` tags, merged across spellings. Present on 2% of segments — this ranks who is recorded, not market share.

How North Macedonia compares · mapped grid by country

Frequently asked

How big is North Macedonia's transmission network?
OverWatts maps 598 km of transmission line in North Macedonia, across 41 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 North Macedonia's grid?
Most of the mapped network is extra-high voltage (380–764 kV): 515 km of 598 km. The highest voltage tagged anywhere in the country is 400 kV.
How complete is the grid map for North Macedonia?
Moderate — 23.9 km of mapped line per 1,000 km² of land, ahead of 64% 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 North Macedonia?
MEPSO are tagged as operators on mapped segments. Operator tags are present on 2% of North Macedonia's segments, so this ranks who is *recorded*, not market share.
What interconnectors connect North Macedonia to its neighbours?
3,270 MW of cross-border transfer capacity to Greece, Kosovo, Serbia, Albania, Bulgaria, plus 1,000 MW planned. Capacities are from the Global Transmission Database (v1.0, 2023).

Elsewhere in North Macedonia

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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.