When the future of Atlantic coral is written, it may well include a chapter set on Tampa Electric-owned land in Apollo Beach, Fl. That’s where Florida Aquarium researchers at the Center for Conservation have just scored a major victory for the world’s oceans. The problem was a disease that had decimated the pillar coral population in the Atlantic Ocean, in the world’s third-largest reef. Reefs are like rain forests underwater:…
“Best school in the universe” meets TECO volunteers with out-of-this-world community commitment
If the end of the school year is enough to send students’ spirits soaring, TECO volunteers at Metropolitan Ministries’ Patricia Sullivan Partnership School did their part to boost the excitement level into the stratosphere on May 25. And while summer break for some means saying goodbye for now to homework and books, the school is saying hello to TECO as its newest corporate sponsor. Sullivan Partnership School, on Metropolitan Ministries’…
Tampa Electric’s huge win-win-win at the Polk Power Station … just keeps winning
Awards continue to pour in for Tampa Electric’s Polk Power Station Regional Reclaimed Water Partnership. Already the recipient of the utility industry’s highest honor for 2015 – the Edison Award from the Edison Electric Institute – the project that uses reclaimed water from the cities of Lakeland and Mulberry and Polk County has earned praise from two more high-profile organizations. On Aug. 1, POWER magazine announced Tampa Electric and the…