6. Productivity

Because of TURN/UCAN's participation, the Commission rejected SDG&E's proposed debt equivalence adder, denied SDG&E's request for an enhanced rate of return on generation assets, approved stranded cost charges for departing loads, and modified the Comverge contract to allocate less of the risk of nonperformance to ratepayers. Although it is difficult in proceedings such as this one to achieve a specific estimate of the benefits of an intervenor's participation, all of these outcomes will provide concrete monetary benefits to ratepayers which will substantially outweigh the cost of TURN/UCAN's participation.