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Safety and Sustainability Part of Super Bowl History

Tampa Electric at Curits Hixon park

There’s a lot of reasons for locals to feel the pride in their hometown sports teams these days. With the Tampa Bay Buccaneers set to vie for the biggest football title on home turf, fans are abuzz with excitement. Tampa Electric is proud to be part of the pre-game celebration as the official sustainability partner of the Super Bowl LV Host Committee.   On select dates between Jan. 28 – Feb.…

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Community Environment

Sheep take over Big Bend solar. And we like it.

Photo of sheep and lambs at Big Bend power station.

If you follow us on Facebook, you may have noticed the four-legged take over. It’s lamb cam time, one of our most popular seasons and one we’re eager to share. Because who doesn’t like cavorting lambs (and how often do you get to say cavorting)?  The sheep aren’t there just to make us smile. They’re our environmentally friendly, cost efficient grass cutters. And when the lambs are born, we turn on the cameras,…

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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

A nice round number and feathery leaves everywhere

All around Tampa Bay, it’s undeniable — this place is growing. Downtowns are growing. Lakeland’s growing. Brandon’s growing. USF is growing. The Tampa campus is one community where you can fully appreciate the transformative power of trees; the power to turn a school that students largely drove to to one they wanted to immerse themselves in as residents. Can you believe Tampa is the best tree city in the world?…

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How fitting is it that TECO (and you) are back at free, fun EcoFest this year again?

As TECO team members descend this Sunday, April 22, on EcoFest – the Tampa Earth Day celebration you just can’t miss – they’ll be at Lowry Park in Tampa and very near some other members of the community they may see again in a few months’ time. In a twist you maybe didn’t see coming, those members of the community are rescued manatees undergoing rehabilitation at ZooTampa at Lowry Park. Each…

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