At TECO, whether it’s preparing year-round for hurricane season or racing to get the community’s lights back on after severe weather, we’re in the “zone” – that place where the mind has precision focus to get the job done. Where every step is taken with safety as our top priority. Where our team members won’t stop until all our customers have their service restored. You may be in one or…
Community Environment
Great things reveal themselves along Gandy Boulevard…and some other objects turn up too
Native species – cabbage palms, mangroves – you’re cool. Keep doing what you’re doing as part of the Tampa-area ecosystem that depends on you. Invasives, on the other hand (you know who you are, Brazilian pepper and lead trees): You’re outta here! At least that’s if TECO team members have anything to say about it. And after another habitat restoration effort in the nature area near the public boat ramp…
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Community Environment
Between gunshots and chainsaws, a habitat gets a haircut
If only clearing more than 14,000 pounds of invasive plants was as easy as giving someone a haircut. But the former is exactly what happened along the banks of McKay Bay in Tampa on March 31 – and rows of shoreline mangroves can breathe easier now. It was the latest collaborative effort between TECO and Keep Tampa Bay Beautiful (KTBB), not far from where TECO team members previously refurbished an…
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Community For Home
Stopping Zika starts in the back yard: Here’s what you can do
For fast-growing Florida – and considering all the big things happening in Tampa – the Zika virus is more than just bad buzz: its terrible effects are impacting growing numbers of people and spreading fear around the world. Governor Scott has declared the state “ground zero” for the virus, and that bad buzz comes literally from mosquitoes, carriers of Zika. Yet local residents have the power to help stop it by looking around…
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