effi wrote:

...5 percent of the power that goes into the electric grid
winds up at it's intended destination, only 95% is lost in transmission

No. About 50% of the fuel's heat energy becomes electrical energy. The
other 50% goes up a cooling tower, And 30% ends up at the destination,
where a clever homeowner with a heat pump can turn it back into 100% :-)

Cleverer homeowners burn the fuel at home, with no cooling tower...

Nick