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All stocked up at home for hurricane season? Let a sales tax holiday help

It’s that one time you actually WANT to see “hurricane” and “holiday” in the same sentence: when a sales tax holiday through June 7 can ease the burden on your wallet as you take every reasonable step to be ready for severe weather. We realize not everyone spends all year preparing for hurricane season like TECO does. But now that it’s here, we (and many others) urge you to take…

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An osprey egg in a nest means what?

In this case, it means lots of things – like the fact that we care about all the residents in this place we love and call home. We care about your safety and we care about the safety of feathered friends like the osprey that share the communities we serve. It means we care about ensuring the power you pay for is there when you need it. We’ll come back…

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Community

Making the most of Arbor Day can be as easy as one, two, tree

A quick look in virtually any direction makes it clear: Florida is growing places. (As in trees are growing, plants are growing, gardens are growing…you get the picture.) That’s great for air quality, natural habitats, economic development and much more. And today, Arbor Day 2018, these are all things to celebrate. But Arbor Day is also an opportunity to spotlight a few important things you need to keep in mind…

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A “tall tale” only in terms of tree-trimming reach – with big reliability benefits for you

Say one thing about Florida: vegetation loves to grow. And for a company like Tampa Electric that loves trees and has the credentials to show for it, we have to grow to meet our customers’ growing needs for safe, reliable power. All of this opens the door for some cool tools to safely ensure you have the reliable power you deserve – tools like the all-terrain tree-trimmer from Jarraff that…

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Community Environment

No nest-warming gifts needed for bald eagle relocated by Tampa Electric (the birds will handle that)

If the United States had picked the turkey as its national bird – a preference that Benjamin Franklin is thought by some to have expressed in private letters – then centuries of American iconography would be dramatically different. One thing that would still be the same, however, is Tampa Electric’s commitment to helping birds like bald eagles thrive in nests that are safely away from our power equipment: it’s good…

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