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Venezuela · electricity network
Venezuela power grid
OverWatts maps 11,700 km of Venezuela's electricity transmission network across 470 line segments and 24 substations, the 30th most-mapped grid of 153 countries. Its backbone is high voltage (220–379 kV), carrying 4,798 km — 41% of the mapped length, with the highest tagged voltage at 765 kV. That works out to 12.8 km per 1,000 km² of land — partial OpenStreetMap coverage, ahead of 44% of mapped countries. It is connected to 2 neighbouring grids by 611 MW of existing cross-border transfer capacity.
OpenStreetMap coverage
This grades how completely OpenStreetMap has drawn Venezuela'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. 9% of segments carry a real line name and 13% an operator tag.
Mapped line length by voltage
- ≥765 kV2,218 km 19%
- 380–764 kV4,687 km 40%
- 220–379 kV4,798 km 41%
470 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 Venezuela
611 MW existing · 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.
Operators tagged on Venezuela's network
- Corpoelec38 62%
- EDELCA19 31%
- CADAFE3 5%
- CORPOELEC (Corporación Eléctrica Nacional)1 2%
Segment counts from OSM `operator` tags, merged across spellings. Present on 13% of segments — this ranks who is recorded, not market share.
How Venezuela compares · mapped grid by country
- 1. People's Republic of China624,300 km
- 28. Colombia12,600 km
- 29. Peru11,800 km
- 30. Venezuela11,700 km
- 31. Morocco11,700 km
- 32. Poland11,600 km
Frequently asked
- How big is Venezuela's transmission network?
- OverWatts maps 11,700 km of transmission line in Venezuela, across 470 segments, plus 24 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 Venezuela's grid?
- Most of the mapped network is high voltage (220–379 kV): 4,798 km of 11,700 km. The highest voltage tagged anywhere in the country is 765 kV.
- How complete is the grid map for Venezuela?
- Partial — 12.8 km of mapped line per 1,000 km² of land, ahead of 44% 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 Venezuela?
- Corpoelec, EDELCA, CADAFE and 1 others are tagged as operators on mapped segments. Operator tags are present on 13% of Venezuela's segments, so this ranks who is *recorded*, not market share.
- What interconnectors connect Venezuela to its neighbours?
- 611 MW of cross-border transfer capacity to Colombia, Brazil. Capacities are from the Global Transmission Database (v1.0, 2023).
Elsewhere in Venezuela
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.