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Pakistan power grid

OverWatts maps 14,600 km of Pakistan's electricity transmission network across 544 line segments and 22 substations, the 25th most-mapped grid of 153 countries. Its backbone is extra-high voltage (380–764 kV), carrying 8,056 km — 55% of the mapped length, with the highest tagged voltage at 660 kV. That works out to 16.7 km per 1,000 km² of land — moderate OpenStreetMap coverage, ahead of 49% of mapped countries. It is connected to 1 neighbouring grid by 70 MW of existing cross-border transfer capacity, with a further 1,300 MW planned.

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14,600 km
Mapped transmission line
22
Substations
#25
of 153 mapped grids
70 MW
cross-border · 1 neighbours
660 kV
Highest voltage

OpenStreetMap coverage

Moderate16.7 km / 1,000 km²ahead of 49% of 153 mapped countries

This grades how completely OpenStreetMap has drawn Pakistan'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. 40% of segments carry a real line name and 1% an operator tag.

Mapped line length by voltage

544 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 Pakistan

70 MW existing · 1.3 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

44.4 GW
Operating generation
665
km of line per substation
16.7
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 Pakistan's network

Segment counts from OSM `operator` tags, merged across spellings. Present on 1% of segments — this ranks who is recorded, not market share.

How Pakistan compares · mapped grid by country

Frequently asked

How big is Pakistan's transmission network?
OverWatts maps 14,600 km of transmission line in Pakistan, across 544 segments, plus 22 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 Pakistan's grid?
Most of the mapped network is extra-high voltage (380–764 kV): 8,056 km of 14,600 km. The highest voltage tagged anywhere in the country is 660 kV.
How complete is the grid map for Pakistan?
Moderate — 16.7 km of mapped line per 1,000 km² of land, ahead of 49% 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 Pakistan?
NTDC are tagged as operators on mapped segments. Operator tags are present on 1% of Pakistan's segments, so this ranks who is *recorded*, not market share.
What interconnectors connect Pakistan to its neighbours?
70 MW of cross-border transfer capacity to Iran, plus 1,300 MW planned. Capacities are from the Global Transmission Database (v1.0, 2023).

Elsewhere in Pakistan

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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.