The motion documents how Treasury evolved from a benchmark price for residential solar in California of $7/watt in June 2012 to $6/watt in December 2012. However, the change was not announced publicly; SolarCity was informed in a private email. Shortly after that informal change, Treasury stopped communicating its benchmarks even to large applicants like SolarCity and admitted that "continuing to publish benchmarks is not useful." Testimony of Ellen Neubauer, the Treasury lawyer who administers the Cash Grant program, is recounted as providing that Treasury replaced benchmarks "with threshold amounts that served the same essential purpose."