TECO is proud to be part of Fourth Friday in downtown Tampa! Read previous Fourth Friday blog posts here and here. Set the way-back machine to the 1920s and you’ll find a magnificent, 53-mile streetcar network crisscrossing Tampa, connecting millions of people annually to their jobs, entertainment and life along the city’s arteries. Set the right-now machine to today – May 26, 2017 – and you can ride the replica…
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Introducing your Johnny Dean Page Substation
Taking a Page out of Tampa Electric history might mean one less critical element in our commitment to bring safe, reliable, affordable power to rapidly growing Plant City. But instead, and to everyone’s benefit, you have Johnny Dean Page Substation. Completed last year on County Line Road in eastern Hillsborough County, the substation bears the name of TECO’s retired vice president of Community Relations and an all-around beloved figure in…
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Gasparilla season is here – and TECO is onboard with smiling faces for the community
For many TECO team members, the company’s commitment to the community includes things like free Home Energy Audits to help customers save money, solar power projects to grow the use of clean energy, and system upgrades to enhance our 99.9 percent power service reliability. On Jan. 23, we joined the thousands who took to the streets for the Gasparilla Children’s Parade, bringing our own brand of community engagement to a…
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Heywood Turner receives Life Enrichment Center’s Lifetime Achievement Award
“Heywood Turner was a legend at TECO and he’s a legend with us.” Those were the words of Ronna Metcalf, executive director of the Life Enrichment Center, as she prepared to present Turner – who retired from Tampa Electric as senior vice president of Production in 1989 – with the center’s first-ever Lifetime Achievement Award at TECO Plaza on Sept. 13. The center is the only private, non-profit senior center…
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