"Here’s my note of optimism: building electrification and transportation electrification offer *so* much potential. These are new tools in the Swiss army knife that we are pushing electric utilities to build to manage the grid." - @sarahsteinberg.bsky.social. 🔌💡

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Finally, we can’t think about electric bills in isolation. Using today's gas delivery system costs: If just 10% of gas customers exit the gas system, remaining customer gas bills increase by $137 - up to $1,233 at 50% full electrification.

3) Annual energy costs only increase for those using a minimum-efficiency heat pump. The use of high efficiency HPs should hold customer energy bills about constant. When adding additional building shell improvements + TOU rates to that high-efficiency HP, a customer can save over $1,000 a year

The report finds:

1) TOU rates can save electric customers hundreds of dollars over the year and prevent costly grid upgrades in the future;

2) Of the options on the table, TOU rates are the only rates that minimize grid impacts that drive continued long-term affordability challenges.

In the era of electrification, the link between customer counts, throughput, & peak day needs will be increasingly severed. Overestimating needs risks overspending customer $s on pipes, unnecessarily exacerbating energy affordability issues. Accurate and granular forecasting is hugely important.

A hugely important first step to ensuring that we don't overbuild the wrong infrastructure in this era of change. To read more about it, and to hear what might be coming next, check out this blog: blog.advancedenergyunited.org/mpsc-order-p...