Global Transmission Database
brinkerink-et-al
Zonal MW transfer limits by country and voltage class, assembled from public sources by Brinkerink et al.
- ProvenanceUntraced
- DocumentationFully documented
- Currency & maintenanceNot yet assessed
A global compilation of inter-zonal transmission transfer capacities, organised by country pair and voltage class. Deliberately zonal: it carries no bus-branch topology and no impedances, so it supports capacity expansion and zonal dispatch and cannot support power flow at any level of care. Its value is coverage where DD1 is thinnest.
- Identifier
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2024.110420- Domains
- Network topology & parameters
- Keywords
- NTC, global, transfer capacity, transmission, zonal
Fitness for purpose
- Supports
- Capacity Expansion Modeling, Production Cost Modeling
- Not suitable for
- Power Flow Analysis, Reliability Assessment
The exclusions are the half you cannot get anywhere else. A dataset that is wrong for your question is worth knowing about before you build on it.
Structure
- Network topology
- No
- Impedances
- No
- Voltage classes
- Not captured
- Provenance class
- curated
- Upstream sources
- Not capturedWhich is a statement about what the catalog can show, not about how the data was produced.
- Licence
- CC-BY-4.0
- Redistribution
- Not captured
Access terms, per path
CSV, one row per country-pair and voltage class
none
Geographic
- Bounding box
- Global
- Granularity
- zonal
- Native CRS
- EPSG:4326
- Geometry types
- Not captured
- Features
- Not captured
- As WKT
POLYGON((-180 -90, 180 -90, 180 90, -180 90, -180 -90))
Temporal
- From
- Jan 1, 2020
- To
- Jan 1, 2024
- Update cadence
- irregular
- Time resolution
- Not captured
| Field | Definition | Type | Unit | Concept | Value basis | Provenance | Report an issue with this field |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
confidence_classCompiler confidence class | The compilers' own three-level assessment of how well-attested a row is, from a published operator figure down to an inference from line count and voltage. | string | Not captured | No concept ⓘ | estimated | Read from: global-transmission-database | |
transfer_capacity_mwInter-zonal transfer capacity | Maximum power transferable between the two zones named in the row, aggregating the limiting effect of all circuits in that voltage class. Caveat: Zonal by construction. This is not a branch rating and must not be substituted for one. | float64 | megawatt | Zonal transfer capacity | estimated | Read from: global-transmission-database | |
voltage_kvVoltage class | Nominal voltage class of the circuits the row aggregates. | float64 | kilovolt | Nominal voltage | measured | Not captured |
The catalog says why, rather than leaving the cell blank.
Three independent facets
Graded separately and never combined. A dataset can be perfectly current and completely unprovenanced, and one number would hide exactly that.
Provenance
DUntraced
No upstream source is recorded. This is a statement about what the catalog can show, not about how the data was produced: a carefully measured dataset with no recorded lineage grades D, because a user cannot trace it.
Documentation
AFully documented
All 3 attribute field(s) carry a definition and a unit where one applies. Allowed ranges are not assessed: the fields that carry them are deferred (PRD §4.3), so no record in this catalog states one and grading against them would mark every record down for the same absent field.
Currency & maintenance
–Not yet assessed
The stated cadence is 'irregular', which is not an interval, so 'past due' has no meaning for this dataset.
Not the same as a poor grade. Provenance and documentation are graded from field-level metadata, which this record does not carry yet.
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CSV, one row per country-pair and voltage class
● Checked and working- Size:
- 800 KiB
- No account needed:
- Yes