Increasing demand for electricity is absolutely essential to convince politicians to back the scale up of the grid that will be needed as more people have electric cars and home heating systems.
Buying electric everything today creates demand that forces the hand of people debating installing new natural gas infrastructure that will be used for 80 years, or finally saying that it isn't worth it because a high percentage of people switched to electric and we can't justify the cost anymore for a few holdouts on gas, we just force the last few to switch to electric at that point.
All that being said, today people are dying, and Europe is afraid to do much about it because everyone has been increasing natural gas use to offset coal, it was a cheap solution to part of the problem.
We might not agree that resisting Russian expansionism is an important short term objective, but I believe we need to start acting like Russia rewrote the world order a few days ago and we can either fight that or roll over.