Burkina Faso’s power sector infrastructure – January 2025


Burkina Faso power map
Issue 519
26 January 2025

Published January 2025, this map provides a detailed view of the power sector in Burkina Faso. The locations of power generation facilities that are operating, under construction or planned are shown by type – including liquid fuels, gas and liquid fuels, thermal, hydroelectricity and solar PV.

Generation sites are marked with different sized circles to show sites of 1-9MW, 10-99MW and 100MW and above.

Existing and future transmission and distribution lines are shown ranging from 90kV to 330kV. Actual and planned cross-border interconnectors are also shown including lines to Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger and Mali.

Power generation data was drawn from our African Energy Live Data platform, which contains project level detail on power plants and projects across Africa.

The map is presented as a PDF file using eps graphics, meaning that there is no loss of resolution as the file is enlarged.

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