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• Tigo Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ: TYGO), a leading provider of intelligent solar and energy software solutions, today announced that the Company’s commitment to Total Quality Solar (TQS) will underscore its presence at the annual North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners (NABCEP) conference in Raleigh, North Carolina from March 18-21.
• For ARAM SOLAR, Tigo support personnel conducted comprehensive design reviews and assisted with multiple commercial solar installations.
• NABCEP 2024 attendees are invited to visit Tigo at booth #10 or schedule a meeting with a Tigo representative in advance of the conference here .
• The Tigo sales team is not attending NABCEP 2024, but sales inquiries can be made here .

• The Tigo EI Residential Solar Solution will be on display from February 28th to March 1st at KEY - The Energy Transition Expo in Rimini, Italy.
• Previously released for the German market, the GO EV Charger features seamless integration with the Tigo EI Residential solar-plus-storage solution.
• In addition to integrated RFID for authorized-user identification, end-users can manage the GO EV Charger remotely through the Tigo Energy Intelligence (EI) app.
• As the stack of Tigo EI Residential products expands with options like EV charging, homeowners benefit from a home energy system that optimizes production and consumption, enabling the best possible return on investment.”
  In the European market, the Tigo EI Residential Solar Solution now includes the Tigo GO EV Charger as well as Tigo TS4 Flex MLPE products, single-phase and three-phase Tigo inverters, modular DC-coupled Tigo energy storage components, and the Tigo EI Link device.

• "These business leaders understand the profound opportunity created by the IRA and are eager to uplift success stories about local economic benefits, job creation and cost savings for families."
• Clean Energy Business and Innovation Week aims to shed light on the significant progress companies are making to deploy climate solutions in partnership with communities.
• It will also lift up the financial and policy innovation needed to increase necessary private funding into the sector.
• To explore further on clean energy investments and job growth nationwide, check out Climate Power's latest State of the Clean Energy Jobs Boom Report .

• Like all MPs, Gould wasn’t eligible for parental leave when her first child was born in 2018.
• She’s taking six months off, thanks to 2019 legislation that provides MP parents of newborns up to 12 months with paid parental leave benefits.
• Yet there are key differences, and they offer three lessons on how parental leave could be redesigned for each and every Canadian parent.

Lesson 1: Boost eligibility

• This is due to many factors, including restrictive eligibility criteria of 600 employment hours in the year before a child’s birth.
• It’s time to rethink eligibility criteria so that more Canadians can benefit from parental leave benefits.

Lesson 2: Better wage top-ups

• For most Canadians, however, parental leave is low-paid: only 33 to 55 per cent of wages, with a ceiling of $401 to $668 weekly and $63,200 annually.
• Out of 36 countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Canada has the lowest wage replacement rates for parental leave.
• In Québec, which has a 70-75 per cent wage replacement rate, that number was 85.6 per cent.

Lesson 3: More flexibility

• Finally, there are lessons about flexibility and choice, and what they mean in a post-pandemic world, where remote work has changed how people balance family life and paid work.
• For Gould, this means taking a short post-partum leave and then combining parental leave with some remote work.
• But there are precedents to build on, such as Ontario’s “right to disconnect” policy and EI’s Working While on Claim option.

Shining a spotlight

• It should matter to all Canadians, because it shines a spotlight on the federal government’s long overdue promise to rethink and redesign parental leave policy.
• A rethinking of parental leave should begin with clarifying what parental leave is.
• Parental leave also needs to be integrated with other care policies, especially early learning and child-care policies.

Recognizing the value of care

• The pandemic also illuminated the socioeconomic value of care and the care economy.
• When she returns from her parental leave, she will be well-placed to advocate for more inclusive integrated care policies.

Andrea Doucet receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.