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Uganda · electricity network
Uganda power grid
OverWatts maps 880 km of Uganda's electricity transmission network across 19 line segments and 3 substations, the 114th most-mapped grid of 153 countries. Its backbone is high voltage (220–379 kV), carrying 591 km — 67% of the mapped length, with the highest tagged voltage at 400 kV. That works out to 3.6 km per 1,000 km² of land — sparse OpenStreetMap coverage, ahead of 14% of mapped countries. It is connected to 1 neighbouring grid by 145 MW of existing cross-border transfer capacity, with a further 1,695 MW planned.
OpenStreetMap coverage
This grades how completely OpenStreetMap has drawn Uganda'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. 16% of segments carry a real line name and 0% an operator tag.
Mapped line length by voltage
- 380–764 kV289 km 33%
- 220–379 kV591 km 67%
19 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 Uganda
- Kenya145 MW
- South Sudan600 MW · planned
- Rwanda400 MW · planned
- Tanzania400 MW · planned
- Kenya155 MW · planned
- Congo (Kinshasa)140 MW · planned
145 MW existing · 1.7 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 Uganda compares · mapped grid by country
- 1. People's Republic of China624,300 km
- 112. Sri Lanka969 km
- 113. Honduras882 km
- 114. Uganda880 km
- 115. Slovenia846 km
- 116. Guinea812 km
Frequently asked
- How big is Uganda's transmission network?
- OverWatts maps 880 km of transmission line in Uganda, across 19 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 Uganda's grid?
- Most of the mapped network is high voltage (220–379 kV): 591 km of 880 km. The highest voltage tagged anywhere in the country is 400 kV.
- How complete is the grid map for Uganda?
- Sparse — 3.6 km of mapped line per 1,000 km² of land, ahead of 14% 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 Uganda to its neighbours?
- 145 MW of cross-border transfer capacity to Kenya, plus 1,695 MW planned. Capacities are from the Global Transmission Database (v1.0, 2023).
Elsewhere in Uganda
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.