Trainmission Energy Loss

I believe it is about 40%, but it could be a little more or less. Why do you ask?

If you had a way of putting (wind,solar,geothermal,tide and river) genarators with in 25 miles of ever big town and mayby closer on smaller towns look at how much less you would have to produce. Like an old Professor said one time to me " If every body had a water fall in their back yard we would not need Texas Electric......" LeRoy

Is that right? I assumed he means losses between generation and final use, and I thought of ~ 5%, but that could be optimistic for several steps up to about 400kV and back down again, and I'm always ready to be put right!

40% is about the figure for generation efficiency electrical out/fuel in (not losses).