6. Productivity

D.98-04-059 directed customers to demonstrate productivity by assigning a reasonable dollar value to the benefits of their participation to ratepayers. (D.98-04-059, at 34-35.) The costs of a customer's participation should bear a reasonable relationship to the benefits realized through its participation. This showing assists us in determining the overall reasonableness of the request.

CFC states that its participation was productive and assisted in making the Commission and other parties more aware of the pitfalls they might face as they begin the negotiations required to transfer DRA's portfolio to the IOUs. CFC's participation, it argues, led to a more complete record of the economic and legal effects of the novation process and the kind of review of replacement contracts which must be undertaken. Our own analysis of CFC's claim of productivity is outlined in Section 5.