Africa Electricity Transmission & Distribution Grid Map

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.

Category

Datasets

Pricing

Free / open

Country

🌍 Pan-African

Last verified

25 Aug 2026

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