Tools

Use our tools, videos, and research to support your organization on its electrification journey.

Tools

BEL'S NEPA summary memo for cooperatives

Research

A Decade of Beneficial Electrification: Progress and the Path Ahead: a Nov. 2025 report issued by The Brattle Group that offers the strongest data to date on how electrification, when deployed strategically, can lower energy bills, improve the environment, and bolster grid reliability.

The Beneficial Electrification Toolkit: developed by the Environmental and Energy Studies Institute with support from BEL, this toolkit is designed as a one-stop-shop for all aspects of beneficial electrification. While readable by a wide audience, the Toolkit was designed for rural electric utilities to develop beneficial electrification programs for their customers.

Beneficial Electrification: Ensuring Electrification in the Public Interest: published in 2018, the paper makes the case for what RAP calls beneficial electrification, or electrification in the public interest.

Environmentally Beneficial Electrification: Electricity as the End-Use Option (The Electricity Journal, Nov. 2015): a white paper co-authored by BEL President Keith Dennis

Environmentally Beneficial Electrification: The Dawn of ‘Emissions Efficiency’ (The Electricity Journal, July 2016): a white paper co-authored by BEL President Keith Dennis

Communicating about Beneficial Electrification