What is Transmission Loss?

Have you ever wondered why you pay a fee in your electric bill called “transmission loss”?
Well if you do, you are probably asking, what is transmission loss?
When electricity travels from power plants to transmission lines , some of the electricity is lost as heat and is discharged in the environment. Heat is always produced in the transfer of energy. Because of the long voyage electricity has to travel to reach your home, some of it is lost in the process. This is what we call transmission loss.
To make it simple, imagine that you bought a 1 cubic feet of ice cube from a far away plant. If you transport that ice cube to your home then some of it will melt along the way. After reaching your home, the volume of the ice cube is not the same anymore. Same is true for electricity, The longer line you need to transport it, the more is lost.
This energy lost is what you pay as part of your electricity bill. Some groups complain that the system is bias because the consumers are the one who pays for energy that is lost and not used. Debates are still happening whether who should pay for transmission loss: the generation and distribution companies or the consumer. 
Still, transmission loss is part of the transfer of electricity. We can minimize it but we cannot avoid it. 

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