This stunning map shows the world’s electric grid in detail

On an incredibly detailed new map, you can look through the world’s 120,000-plus power plants, from solar and wind farms to battery storage and coal and gas plants, along with nearly 3 million miles of transmission lines and hundreds of thousands of substations. Other layers include gas pipelines, flood risk, and power-hungry data centers. The map was built by Brian Bartholomew, an energy consultant who created it as part of a side project called OpenGridWorks, which provides publicly accessi...