Africa Electricity Transmission & Distribution Grid Map
Built by World Bank
Open GIS map of existing and planned electricity transmission and distribution lines for all continental African countries and Madagascar, tagged by voltage (sub-kV to 700kV) and status. Four downloadable resources cover combined, existing-only and planned-only lines as GeoJSON plus a Shapefile package. Published by the World Bank on ENERGYDATA.INFO under CC BY 4.0 and last updated September 2024.
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- 🌍 Pan-African
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- 10 Jul 2026
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- 7 Jul 2026 · live
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