D.__Monitor and participate in planning and program development forums elsewhere in the region or the country and enter into agreements with public agencies or other entities outside of the State for joint or cooperative planning or program delivery whenever such arrangements can provide demonstrable benefits to citizens of the State and when such arrangements are consistent with objectives, strategies and program plans developed pursuant to paragraph B;

E.__Provide aggregation services in the purchase of retail electricity on behalf of low-income households that qualify for federal assistance under the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program or its successor or under section 3214 if those services are voluntary and are consented to by the head of household;

F.__Offer aggregation services for the purchase of retail electricity and energy services at all facilities owned and, to the extent feasible, leased by the State, in order to achieve reductions in the costs to the State of these services consistent with the overall environmental goals identified in subsection 1;

G.__Seek to realize reductions in the emission of ozone precursors and greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, by means of improved delivery of programs under the jurisdiction of the Department of Environmental Protection in conjunction with the emission reduction credit program established in section 3211-B; and

H.__Aggregate emissions reduction credits that are realized by any of the authority's programs and seek their certification by the Department of Environmental Protection pursuant to section 3211-B.__Any income realized as a result of these aggregation efforts must be used to fund the authority's operations.

3.__Implementation.__In performing the duties established in subsection 2, the authority shall:

A.__Coordinate its efforts with similar efforts in and among states in the Northeast region that are designed to achieve the same goals;