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First big step to building a modern energy grid nears completion

AMI meter installation

If you are a Tampa Electric customer, you likely have a new digital smart meter installed at your home or business. In late 2017, we embarked on a multiyear project to upgrade all of our electric meters – more than 810,000 – across our West Central Florida service area. Unlike the meters they replaced, the new digital smart meters send your electric usage data directly to Tampa Electric through a…

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Mini-bucket, many possibilities for serving the community with safety and reliability

A new piece of equipment Tampa Electric has to serve the community may look familiar at first, but the Terex mini-bucket goes farther in terms of getting company team members to the sources of outages – fostering improved safety for them and more reliability for you. The mini-bucket is just what the name implies: a smaller version of the bucket you see on our line trucks that elevate TECO team…

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Our numbers tell a positive story about your electric service reliability – and we’re working to do more

When it comes to providing quality electric service for our customers – the power you pay for, which happens to cost 12 percent below the national average – you might think that uninterrupted service 99.9 percent of the time would be good enough. Not for Tampa Electric. That’s why we’re always striving to find new ways to enhance reliability, and it’s the story behind our latest efforts. With power pole-mounted…

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Stay in the know while you’re on the go with Power Updates

We work hard to provide you with reliable service; in fact, we generally maintain 99.9% reliability. However, natural occurrences like weather or trees and animals coming into contact with electrical equipment cause more than half the outages that occur. When the power goes out, you want answers – fast. Now, you can get them on your mobile device with our FREE Power UpdatesSM. When you sign up for Power Updates,…

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