Deliveries don’t get much more special than this: We’re talking about a day in December when three small moving trucks showed up at the doorstep of Tampa Electric’s Manatee Viewing Center, joined by an eager group of people in water shoes. The trucks’ rear doors rattled open and inside each was a large, passive creature with gray skin and scars on its body. They were doing just fine – great, in fact. The animals’ handlers doused them continuously with water.…
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Opening Nov. 1 at 10 a.m., Tampa Electric’s Manatee Viewing Center is your natural remedy for a hectic world
When we say love for our customers and the community is part of our nature at TECO, that includes the spectacular environmental attraction we present to you – opening Nov. 1 with free parking and admission – where nature takes center stage: Tampa Electric’s Manatee Viewing Center in Apollo Beach. Safe, reliable power is great. (A company with the largest percentage of its generation from solar power among Florida utilities –…
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Adopt-a-Route champions for 2018, TECO proudly brings people power to help Meals on Wheels of Tampa serve those in need
Earlier this year, we told you how TECO team members love volunteering to help Meals on Wheels deliver much-needed food to elderly or disabled residents in the community – seeing this effort as a sort of scavenger hunt for the soul. And along the way to helping ensure people simply have the basic necessity of food on their tables, we found something else: the nonprofit’s 2018 Adopt-a-Route Partner of the…
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Habitat trail at the Manatee Viewing Center
The trail in environmental stewardship that the Manatee Viewing Center has blazed since 1986 is one that you can enjoy at ground-level. November 1 marks the opening of the center’s coastal habitat trail, a mulched path that winds eight-tenths of a mile through saltern, coastal high marsh and coastal strand habitats. Like the MVC, it’s free to the public and showcases a variety of plant and animal life. And like…
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Community Environment
Saving our feathered friends: for country, community and customers like you
Sometimes, when TECO’s environmental stewardship efforts take flight – occasionally with lives on the line – it’s to ensure birds like bald eagles have safe places to land, nest and raise their young. Those efforts were on display again recently in south Hillsborough County, and will be again at the first sign of a potential collision course of bird and TECO customers atop our power poles. Because while no non-TECO…
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