; (3) a Federal power marketing administration, an electric utility, or a natural gas utility that has— (A) a residential energy efficiency retrofit program; and (B) a quality assurance provider or provider network; or (4) an entity that demonstrates to the Secretary that the entity can perform the functions of a rebate aggregator, without disrupting existing residential retrofits in the States that are incorporating the Home Energy Savings Retrofit Rebate Program, including demonstration of— (A) the capability to provide electronic data to the Federal Rebate Processing System; (B) a financial system that is capable of tracking the distribution of rebates to participating contractors; and (C) coordination and cooperation by the entity with the appropriate State energy office regarding participation in the existing energy efficiency programs that will be delivering the Home Energy Savings Retrofit Rebate Program. (c) Public utility commission efficiency targets The Secretary shall— (1) develop guidelines for States and local governments to use to allow utilities participating as rebate aggregators to count the energy savings from the participation of the utilities toward State and local level energy savings targets; and (2) work with States and local governments to assist in the adoption of those guidelines for the purposes and duration of the Home Energy Savings Retrofit Rebate Program. 32106. Quality assurance providers (a) Qualifications An entity shall be considered a quality assurance provider under this part only if the entity is qualified through— (1) the BPI; (2) RESNET; or (3) any other entity designated by the Secretary such as a State, local government, or State-approved or local government-approved residential energy efficiency retrofit program. (b) Functions A quality assurance provider shall— (1) be independent of the contractor; (2) confirm that contractors or installers of home energy efficiency retrofits meet the qualification requirements of this part