Cooking Up Energy Savings this Holiday Season The holiday season is all about spending time with family and friends. It also means home-cooked meals right out of the oven like ham, turkey, stuffing, acorn squash, mashed potatoes and let’s not forget delicious desserts! All this festive activity can increase energy use. Fortunately, the price Tampa Electric customers pay for electricity is among the lowest in Florida and well below the…
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October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month
Cybersecurity Awareness Month, held every October, is a collaborative effort between government and industry to ensure everyone in the country has the resources they need to be safer and more secure online. Do Your Part. #BECYBERSMART. Stay alert. Scammers know just when to strike. Scammers never stop and are always looking for new ways to take advantage of those who let their guard down. The latest tactic – scammers are…
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Tapping the sun and battery technology to light up the night
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…
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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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Stay alert. Scammers know just when to strike.
You’re home enjoying time with your family over a three-day weekend and the phone rings… You’re a restaurant owner in the middle of dinner rush and the phone rings… You’re stocking up at the grocery store in advance of a storm and the phone rings … Someone is calling to let you know your account is past due and that you must make an immediate payment in order to avoid…
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