In the process of the Hilbert-Huang transform, empirical mode decomposition (EMD) may result in the end effect and modal aliasing when processing data, so proposing Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition (EEMD) instead of EMD, and assessing the accuracy of the two decomposition processes according to the total energy of the signal before and after the decomposition. Take a comparison between the Hilbert-Huang transform and the wavelet transform, the localization showed that the Hilbert-Huang transform is better than wavelet transform in the fault location of transmission line.