{"id":1968,"date":"2018-09-11T13:29:53","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T17:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/?p=1968"},"modified":"2018-09-11T13:29:53","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T17:29:53","slug":"maryland-energy-administration-employee-of-the-month-for-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/2018\/09\/11\/maryland-energy-administration-employee-of-the-month-for-september\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland Energy Administration Employee of the Month for September"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1969\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/09\/Cait-Sept-2018.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1969\" class=\"wp-image-1969 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/09\/Cait-Sept-2018-300x244.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/09\/Cait-Sept-2018-300x244.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/09\/Cait-Sept-2018.jpg 674w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1969\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chief of Staff Greg Williams and MEA Director Mary Beth Tung present Program Manager Caitlin Madera with the Employee of the Month trophy<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Caitlin Madera is our Employee of the Month for September. Caitlin is the Energy Program Manager for the <a href=\"https:\/\/energy.maryland.gov\/business\/Pages\/incentives\/empowermdcigp.aspx\">Commercial and Industrial (C&amp;I) grant program<\/a>. Previously, Caitlin ran the <a href=\"https:\/\/energy.maryland.gov\/govt\/Pages\/smartenergycommunities.aspx\">Maryland Smart Energy Communities (MSEC) grant program<\/a> here at the Maryland Energy Administration (MEA). Caitlin has been a regular fixture at MEA outreach events promoting our programs and engaging with local leaders to explain which energy saving <a href=\"https:\/\/energy.maryland.gov\/Pages\/all-incentives.aspx\">programs<\/a> can best help their <a href=\"https:\/\/energy.maryland.gov\/govt\/Pages\/incentives.aspx\">community<\/a>.\u00a0Caitlin has a\u00a0Bachelor\u2019s of Science in Environmental Science and\u00a0Policy with\u00a0minors\u00a0in Sustainability and Environmental\u00a0Economics from the University of Maryland, College Park.\u00a0 Before Caitlin was a program manager, she held\u00a0several\u00a0internships at MEA focusing on <a href=\"https:\/\/energy.maryland.gov\/residential\/Pages\/incentives\/woodstoves.aspx\">wood\/pellet heating<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/energy.maryland.gov\/residential\/Pages\/incentives\/CleanEnergyGrants.aspx\">residential energy efficiency financing<\/a>, and renewable energy grants. In her spare time, you can find Caitlin whitewater\u00a0kayaking and hiking.\u00a0 You can connect with Caitlin on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/cait-madera-25992864\/\">LinkedIn<\/a>\u00a0or via\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:caitlin.madera@maryland.gov\">email<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h5>Speaking of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/energy.maryland.gov\/business\/Pages\/incentives\/empowermdcigp.aspx\">C &amp; I grant program<\/a><\/h5>\n<p>Applications for the newest cycle of the <a href=\"https:\/\/energy.maryland.gov\/business\/Pages\/incentives\/empowermdcigp.aspx\">C &amp; I grant program<\/a> are due Monday, December 17, 2018.\u00a0 The C &amp; I grant program\u00a0supports improving the energy efficiency and reducing the energy costs of enterprises in Maryland\u2019s commercial and industrial sector. Read more about one Maryland businesses success with a C &amp; I grant <a href=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/02\/Tower-Companies-Discovers-the-Power-of-Energy-Management-with-MEA-1.pdf\">here<\/a>. Up to $1.2 million is available in funding. Apply <a href=\"https:\/\/energy.maryland.gov\/business\/Pages\/incentives\/empowermdcigp.aspx\">today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/09\/EE-ATM-Tung.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1970 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/09\/EE-ATM-Tung-300x145.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/09\/EE-ATM-Tung-300x145.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/09\/EE-ATM-Tung-768x371.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/09\/EE-ATM-Tung-1024x494.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/09\/EE-ATM-Tung.jpg 1067w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caitlin Madera is our Employee of the Month for September. Caitlin is the Energy Program Manager for the Commercial and Industrial (C&amp;I) grant program. Previously, Caitlin ran the Maryland Smart Energy Communities (MSEC) grant program here at the Maryland Energy Administration (MEA). Caitlin has been a regular fixture at MEA<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/2018\/09\/11\/maryland-energy-administration-employee-of-the-month-for-september\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8230;Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[42,25,10,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-main","category-news","category-newsletters"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1968"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1981,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968\/revisions\/1981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}