Cost-benefit what? I work for one of the largest municipal electric utilities in North America. We are a monopoly and do not set our own rates. There is no suc

Cost-benefit what? I work for one of the largest municipal electric utilities in North America. We are a monopoly and do not set our own rates. There is no such thing as "cost-benefit" for us. We spend as much money as we need to get the reliability our regulator demands, and then our rates are set accordingly for us to recover those costs.