One of the first things I “learned” in this biz is that increased sales lowers electric rates for all. “Received wisdom,” really. Isn’t that just a between-cases benefit, quickly offset by increased rates due to even more fixed cost spending to serve higher persistent load?
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Good planning processes with good BCA frames would go a long way to making sure BE is a win-win-win.
At least in New York, we don't have good formalized BCA frameworks for the fuel-switching cases which are typical of Beneficial Electrification. We need to extend the existing framework to ensure consistent and proper evaluation of Beneficial Electrification.