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A look back at a few ways we made connecting with you a top priority in 2017

Hard as it may be to believe, here we are at the end of another year. What we hope is easier to believe: How hard we worked in 2017 to keep your life humming with safe, reliable power, convenience and all the things you want and deserve from your electric utility. It’s a big job, but we’re proud to do it because we share this community with you. There’s no…

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In service to our customers, the math adds up: 460 more megawatts of environmentally responsible power at Polk Power Station

For providing 20 years of safe, reliable electricity to growing West Central Florida, what do you get the power station that has everything? (And by “everything,” we mean worldwide renown, bold innovation, the highest honor in the electric utility industry and team members and contractors that care about the community.) Simple – you get it the same thing our customers get: More power. More power to you is the story…

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Magliocco represents TECO on national stage at American Water Summit

The presentation by Tampa Electric’s Catherine Magliocco at the American Water Summit last week in Denver flowed neatly into other important news from around the United States. In fact, it might even generate a surge of special interest among those who can bring its successful lessons home. Magliocco, project manager, addressed summit attendees about the Polk Power Station Regional Reclaimed Water Project, winner of the 2015 Edison Award from the…

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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…

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Innovative reclaimed water project is now operational at Polk Power Station

Tampa Electric and its partners, Southwest Florida Water Management District and the city of Lakeland, have begun full operation of an innovative reclaimed water system to cool the Polk Power Station – and to benefit the environment. After five years of construction, the $120 million Polk Power Station Regional Reclaimed Water Partnership Initiative officially entered into service last month. The project will allow Tampa Electric to collect reclaimed water from…

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