ELECTRICAL POWER SECTOR (PRIOR TO END USE)
Input from all sources = 40.3 (39 percent of all energy consumed in USA)
Distributed electricity = 12.5 (31 percent of energy used for electrical power generation)
Electrical system losses = 27.8 (69 percent of energy used for electrical power generation)
TRANSPORTATION SECTOR
Input from all sources = 27.9 (27 percent of all energy consumed in USA)
Energy used = 5.6 (20 percent of energy used for transportation)
Energy wasted = 22.4 (80 percent of energy used for transportation)
It gets a bit muddied elsewhere. Every exajoule of electricity produced is consumed by residential/commercial and industrial customers, who turn around and waste an additional 9.2 exajoules (9 percent of all energy consumed in USA). While it's clear that all electricity is consumed by them, and all the useful energy in the transportation is simply locomotion, it is not clear how much of the 31.6 exajoules (31 percent overall) of useful energy output from residential/commercial and industrial sectors is thereafter wasted, or even what "useful" means in this context.
Space/Science » in reply to Pretty standard for most thermodynamic power processes.
End-user losses aren't accounted for in the chart
