The invention relates to the field of planning of power transmission networks of electric power systems. For assisting planning personnel of the power transmission network to evaluate a power grid capacity margin in the future, discriminate system weak link recognition and an unreasonable grid structure, balance reliability and economy of a power grid planning scheme, and the like, the invention provides a calculating method of a utilization rate of an electric transmission line based on probability load flow. The technical scheme includes that the calculating method comprises the following steps: 1), carrying out definition description on the utilization rate of the electric transmission line; 2), building a probability distribution model of loads of N years in the future and a generator shut-down probability model; 3), generating random loads and generator random shut-down states; 4), serving lowest cost of total output of each generator set as an economic distribution objective function, and satisfying constraint conditions at the same time; 5), calculating line load flow values through a direct current load flow method or an alternate current load flow method; and 6), recoding the line load flow values, obtained by simulation everytime, of the line. The calculating method is mainly applied to the planning of the power transmission networks of the electric power systems.