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…
Customer Experience Smart Solutions
Working to deliver reliable power to you
It’s been almost a year since the pandemic changed our lives and forced many of us to work and school from home. TECO employees are not exempt. Like you, we depend on safe, affordable, clean and reliable power to charge phones, run computers, cook meals, communicate with teachers or coworkers, and so much more. We know that even a momentary outage or “flicker” can be an annoyance. It’s why we’re…
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Community Environment
Happy Florida Arbor Day from TECO! (If you plant a tree, plant it in the right place – and call 811 before you dig!)
Most Tampa Electric team members spend Florida Arbor Day, Jan. 17, working hard to make sure our customers have the reliable power they expect (and great customer service to go with it). Our Line Clearance team does something a little extra-special as it ventures out to local schools to plant an idea in the minds of young students: that trees are great, but even better when they’re in the right…
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Community For Business For Home
Aug. 26 is Florida Lineworker Appreciation Day – a reminder to thank the ones who keep power flowing to the community
Lineworkers – the people who work at all hours on the front lines of the electrical system to ensure that the community has safe, reliable electrical power – are the ones who, in many ways, keep the world running. Your lights on. Your stove hot and your home’s air cool. Your electronics operational. And unlike military personnel and emergency workers, the potential dangers they face are always there because electricity never stops…
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Smart Solutions
Recent milestone brings you a step closer to big benefits
You’ve heard the saying, “big things come in small packages.” We can apply this to a piece of advanced technology we are installing as part of our ongoing efforts to build a more modern grid for you. In this case, the small package is a Connected Grid Router (CGR). Over the past four months, the company has installed 364 of these shoebox-size devices atop poles throughout West Central Florida, marking…
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