Write it down in permanent ink: TECO loves students, and not just because so many of us are students too. When you’ve been serving the community for 120 years with safe, reliable power and natural gas, you’ve got to grow with the times – and we’re committed to that. The generation right behind us is growing too, and when you factor in the needs of our customers today and in…
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Students STEAM their way into TECO to see a clearer picture of rewarding careers
How it typically works is that TECO’s safe, reliable and affordable electricity travels out across our service area to power the lives and positive potential futures of more than 750,000 customers and those who live and work alongside them. But a group of teenage students turned that notion on its head last month when they journeyed into the heart of TECO’s Ybor Data Center to get a close look at a…
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Great job, graduates – now get out there and keep achieving outstanding things!
Graduating from a higher-learning institution is about hard work that brought you to this point, exciting potential for growth and the promise of great things to come. This applies to the newest grads from TECO companies – and it also applies to our program that helped them achieve their advanced degrees. After years of helping TECO team members in Florida build their knowledge and credentials through tuition assistance, this year…
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Helping USF women grow WISE beyond their years – with helpful guidance from TECO
Sarah MacDonald may be relatively new to Florida, but considering how she went from president and CEO of Grand Bahama Power Company to the president of TECO Services in Tampa (both are part of the Emera family of companies), she’s no stranger to seeing the bright side of things – an idea that underpinned her remarks to young women at the recent Women Who Ignite Student Engagement (WISE) Symposium at…
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LEEF it to the environmental experts to help grow the profile of the Florida Conservation and Technology Center
It was a conference in which attendees relished the chance to bug each other – bug as in insects – and nobody minded in the slightest. In fact, the Spring 2017 Mini-Conference of the League of Environmental Educators in Florida (LEEF) at the Florida Conservation and Technology Center (FCTC) proved to be a big success, both for an organization whose commitment to the environment aligns with TECO’s and for FCTC…
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