Toolkit Guide
How To Use This Toolkit
The Beneficial Electrification Toolkit is designed for utilities that are interested in pursuing customer savings, reducing emissions, improving customer quality of life, and strengthening the grid. By moving sequentially through the Toolkit, users — program managers, general managers, finance professionals, board members, and others — will develop an understanding, a vision, and finally a plan for creating a beneficial electrification program. You can also jump to the sections of most interest. In any case, the reach of beneficial electrification may surprise users. Our team looks forward to seeing your programs come to life!
Trying to figure out all the recent fuss around beneficial electrification? Here is where to start.
Learn more about many of the new electric technologies that are lowering consumer energy costs and overall emissions.
Use our calculators to see how customers and electric utilities can stand to benefit from electrification upgrades.
BE programs come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, which means the planning process will require a lot of decisions to be made. Let’s dive in.
Transportation Program Framework (coming soon)
Let’s look at some key elements for turning a beneficial electrification plan into a successfully delivered program.
Contractor Recruitment and Management
Considerations for Transportation Projects (coming soon)
Take a look at some concrete examples of success.
Orcas Power and Light Cooperative — Washington
Mountain Parks Electric — Colorado
MyRide All-Electric Transit Bus Fleet
City of Rock Hill, South Carolina
Power Moves (coming soon)
Wabash Valley Power Alliance — Indiana
Where To Go From Here
Once our users have completed the five sections of the Beneficial Electrification Toolkit, they will be able to define beneficial electrification, name various beneficial electrification applications, assess their own opportunities for a program, understand how to plan a building- or transportation-oriented program, and finally how to rollout a full beneficial electrification program to utility customers.
This work is not simple or easy, but this is work absolutely worth doing. It is in the best interest of utilities and their customers to actively pursue beneficial electrification to ensure the viability and strength of their organization and services. There will be many questions along the way, and this Toolkit cannot answer each one, but we can prepare utilities and the people that run them to be confident and ready to navigate the challenges ahead. The Toolkit team is prepared to work with our users throughout this process, and to connect users to other utilities that have implemented beneficial electrification programs already. Now let’s get to it.