The paper is focused on the source energy distribution in vertically inhomogeneous elastic halfspaces with soft internal channels. The analysis is performed using the Fourier transform technique and Green's matrix integral representations. Timeaveraged wave energy fluxes are calculated based on the Umov-Poynting energy vector concept. The excited guided waves exhibit a peculiar effect of wave energy localization in certain, specific for each wave mode, frequency ranges. Outwardly, it looks like a successive energy forwarding from every current mode to the next one.