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 there will be monetary benefits arising out of this rulemaking. CFC goes on to state that it cannot value these benefits nor predict if they will actually materialize. CFC asserts that a Smart Grid Vision Statement, cost benefit analysis, as well as metrics will benefit consumers. In the instant request and in subsequent communications with the Commission, CFC has been unable and/or unwilling to articulate or demonstrate a significant or productive contribution to this decision, but with the reductions adopted, we find that the approved hours were productive.