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Sudan power grid

OverWatts maps 5,324 km of the Sudan's electricity transmission network across 429 line segments and 3 substations, the 54th most-mapped grid of 153 countries. Its backbone is high voltage (220–379 kV), carrying 4,361 km — 82% of the mapped length, with the highest tagged voltage at 500 kV. That works out to 2.9 km per 1,000 km² of land — sparse OpenStreetMap coverage, ahead of 10% of mapped countries. It is connected to 3 neighbouring grids by 4,332 MW of existing cross-border transfer capacity, with a further 1,150 MW planned.

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5,324 km
Mapped transmission line
3
Substations
#54
of 153 mapped grids
4.3 GW
cross-border · 3 neighbours
500 kV
Highest voltage

OpenStreetMap coverage

Sparse2.9 km / 1,000 km²ahead of 10% of 153 mapped countries

This grades how completely OpenStreetMap has drawn the Sudan'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. 6% of segments carry a real line name and 0% an operator tag.

Mapped line length by voltage

429 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 the Sudan

4.3 GW existing · 1.1 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

3.2 GW
Operating generation
1775
km of line per substation
2.9
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 the Sudan's network

Segment counts from OSM `operator` tags, merged across spellings. Present on 0% of segments — this ranks who is recorded, not market share.

How the Sudan compares · mapped grid by country

Frequently asked

How big is the Sudan's transmission network?
OverWatts maps 5,324 km of transmission line in the Sudan, across 429 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 the Sudan's grid?
Most of the mapped network is high voltage (220–379 kV): 4,361 km of 5,324 km. The highest voltage tagged anywhere in the country is 500 kV.
How complete is the grid map for the Sudan?
Sparse — 2.9 km of mapped line per 1,000 km² of land, ahead of 10% 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 Sudan?
Ethiopian Electric Power are tagged as operators on mapped segments. Operator tags are present on 0% of the Sudan's segments, so this ranks who is *recorded*, not market share.
What interconnectors connect the Sudan to its neighbours?
4,332 MW of cross-border transfer capacity to Ethiopia, Egypt, South Sudan, plus 1,150 MW planned. Capacities are from the Global Transmission Database (v1.0, 2023).

Elsewhere in the Sudan

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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.