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Africa Electricity Transmission & Distribution Grid Map vs Energy time-series (World Bank + EIA)
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Category
Datasets
Datasets
Type
Energy
Energy
Country
🌍 Pan-African
🇳🇬 Nigeria
Docs status
Docs live
Docs live
Licensing
Pricing
Free / open
Free (EIA key)
Verified
Unverified
Verified
Last verified
5 Jul 2026
24 Jun 2026
Tags
energy, electricity, geojson, infrastructure, grid
time-series, api, energy
Summary
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.
Best developer-accessible Nigerian energy time-series: World Bank electricity-access % (no auth) and EIA energy production/consumption (free API key required).