Before you play

What This Grid Loss Figure Means

This game compares electric power transmission and distribution losses.

  • The figure measures the share of electricity output lost between generation and delivery, including technical losses and some non-technical losses.
  • It is not the same thing as outage hours, but it is one of the clearest broad signals of grid weakness.
  • A national grid can sound modern right up to the moment you ask how much of its power leaks away first.

Electricity politics often hides in the gap between what gets generated and what actually arrives.