Our lighting team recently installed 175 new streetlights in Creek Preserve, a new housing development in Wimauma. But these are no ordinary streetlights. Each light is equipped with a solar panel and a battery. The solar panel makes energy during the day that’s stored in the battery to illuminate the light at night. What happens if cloud cover occurs several days in a row? No problem, the battery stores enough…
Community Company Environment
A Solar “Flower” Takes Root at an Urban Farm
There aren’t many places you can go to buy fresh produce and loaves of warm bread, see sustainable farming methods firsthand and charge your phone or laptop with solar energy! But that’s exactly what’s happening at Meacham Urban Farm, nestled between I-275 and downtown Tampa. The farmers there have created a high-yielding farm that will eventually be a place where school groups (and the general public) can learn about eating healthful foods and where that food originates. Plans call for a pathway that will take visitors from the produce market at the forefront of the…
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Community Environment
Sheep take over Big Bend solar. And we like it.
If you follow us on Facebook, you may have noticed the four-legged take over. It’s lamb cam time, one of our most popular seasons and one we’re eager to share. Because who doesn’t like cavorting lambs (and how often do you get to say cavorting)? The sheep aren’t there just to make us smile. They’re our environmentally friendly, cost efficient grass cutters. And when the lambs are born, we turn on the cameras,…
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Community Company Environment Vehicles
Greening our fleet offers many benefits
As we celebrate National Drive Electric Week, Sept. 26 to Oct. 4, we join a nationwide celebration to raise awareness of the benefits of driving an electric vehicle (EV). As EVs become more popular, manufacturers are rolling out new models that are fun to drive, require less maintenance, are better for the environment and offer battery capacity to go longer distances, making range anxiety a thing of the past. Tampa…
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Community Smart Solutions
Researching the benefits of plugging into the sun
Demolition is underway at Tampa Electric’s Eastern Service Area in Tampa – the first step towards building the state’s first Integrated Renewable Energy System or what some are calling a solar canopy. Approved by the Florida Public Service Commission in July, the solar canopy system will integrate three elevated solar arrays with a generating capacity of 800 kilowatts. It will include battery storage capable of reserving 1,000 kilowatts of power…
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