Philippines · electricity network

Philippines power grid

OverWatts maps 5,731 km of the Philippines's electricity transmission network across 1,039 line segments and 18 substations, the 51st most-mapped grid of 153 countries. Its backbone is high voltage (220–379 kV), carrying 4,782 km — 83% of the mapped length, with the highest tagged voltage at 500 kV. That works out to 19.5 km per 1,000 km² of land — moderate OpenStreetMap coverage, ahead of 54% of mapped countries.

5,731 km
Mapped transmission line
18
Substations
#51
of 153 mapped grids
500 kV
Highest voltage

OpenStreetMap coverage

Moderate19.5 km / 1,000 km²ahead of 54% of 153 mapped countries

This grades how completely OpenStreetMap has drawn the Philippines'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. 30% of segments carry a real line name and 83% an operator tag.

Mapped line length by voltage

1,039 segments · a segment is credited to the country containing its midpoint, so a border-crossing line counts once, on one side.

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Load against the network

25.5 GW
Operating generation
318
km of line per substation
19.5
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 the Philippines's network

Segment counts from OSM `operator` tags, merged across spellings. Present on 83% of segments — this ranks who is recorded, not market share.

How the Philippines compares · mapped grid by country

Frequently asked

How big is the Philippines's transmission network?
OverWatts maps 5,731 km of transmission line in the Philippines, across 1,039 segments, plus 18 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 the Philippines's grid?
Most of the mapped network is high voltage (220–379 kV): 4,782 km of 5,731 km. The highest voltage tagged anywhere in the country is 500 kV.
How complete is the grid map for the Philippines?
Moderate — 19.5 km of mapped line per 1,000 km² of land, ahead of 54% 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 the Philippines?
National Grid Corporation of the Philippines, Meralco, Southwest Luzon Power Generation Corporation and 5 others are tagged as operators on mapped segments. Operator tags are present on 83% of the Philippines's segments, so this ranks who is *recorded*, not market share.

Elsewhere in the Philippines

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.