As TECO monitors Hurricane Irma, we urge you to ensure that your household is prepared – that includes having an updated emergency plan for your family, knowing the location of your appropriate emergency shelter and taking special steps to have medicine and other critical items you might need on hand for every member of your household. While we’re focused on safety and service for you, we have responsibilities to the…
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…
A “peak” at our commitment to helping you stay cool on a very hot day
Tampa Electric had been serving customers for three years by the time the world’s first large-scale electric air conditioner was unveiled in 1902. Since then, as our hometown’s population has grown by leaps and bounds, our capacity to provide our nearly 730,000 customers today with safe, reliable power has only grown with it. Customer demand and our commitment to you came together for a new record on July 5. At…
After a four-and-a-half-year journey, they’re ready to ensure you have safe, reliable power
You see them at all hours on the front lines of the electrical system. They have sharp minds, a wealth of technical knowledge, strong bodies and the dedication to get tough jobs done – often at the tops of power poles – and are fully committed to safety and reliability. They are your neighbors, and they work hard to keep the lights on in your neighborhood. They are TECO’s journeymen…
TECO crews and contractors excel at safety and speed with Colin response
When Tropical Storm Colin came calling, TECO crews and contractors were ready with a “fast and furious” response – not in muscle cars but in bucket trucks and other fleet vehicles as they fanned out across the community to restore power quickly and safely. How safely? With zero personal injuries and zero preventable accidents. “When you have outages impacting nearly 40,000 customers, you’re talking about a lot of hard, complex…