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We\u2019ve installed over 107KW of clean energy, and provided more than 1,000 hours workforce training to 100 local residents.<\/p>\n<p>Among many others, a few special highlights of this past year include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy and HUD Secretary Juli\u00e1n Castro speaking at the home of Kiona Mack, a single mother in the economically challenged Ivy City neighborhood in Northeast Washington, D.C. during the GRID Mid-Atlantic launch.<\/li>\n<li>Having 300 people\u2014volunteers, community members, partner organizations, local leaders and top Obama administration officials&#8211;come out over the course of a week to help install 19 kW of clean, renewable solar power for ten deserving families, during the course of the Mid-Atlantic launch.<\/li>\n<li>Hosting Congressmen Elijah Cummings (D-MD), Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Brian Deese senior advisor to President Barack Obama and other government officials during a White House announcement of new investments in solar for low-income communities, including a major investment in GRID\u2019s SolarCorps Program at the Mid-Atlantic\u2019s install in East Baltimore\u2019s C.A.R.E. 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