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Our Power Blog is moving! Come visit us at our new place

We’re always looking for ways to improve your experience with us online. This week, we’re excited to announce our new Power Blog platform at TampaElectric.com/blog where you’ll find the same great content – tips for saving energy around your home or business, investments we’re making to maintain 99% reliable service, how we’re working towards our vision of a net-zero carbon future, stories about what we’re doing in communities across West…

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Community Company Environment Smart Solutions

Our forecast: Sunny with a 100% chance of solar innovations

Solar energy is clean energy. And where better to test new ideas than the Sunshine State? That’s why our research and development teams are busy testing solar energy solutions – carefully recording data, analyzing the benefits, and seeking community partners. We hope these forward-thinking innovations will play a part in achieving our vision of a net-zero carbon future.    It Floats!  In 2021 we began to install our first solar arrays…

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Cold weather tips can help you stay warm and save money too

When temperatures drop, home heating can have the biggest impact on your electric bill. Here are some simple tips that can help you stay warm and save money on your electric bill. Staying safe and warm indoors Lower your thermostat to 68°F or the lowest comfortable setting, and keep the settings constant. With a heat pump, limit the activation of the supplemental heat strip by making minor, periodic adjustments to…

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Massive Plan for Tampa Electric’s Cleaner-Energy Future Brings Mighty Partners Together

Archie Collins, Jane Castor and Rhea Law

Atop the Tampa Convention Center under the brilliant morning sun on Nov. 8, Tampa Electric President and CEO Archie Collins laid out a transformative plan for a cleaner-energy future. With new, emerging and future technologies, Tampa Electric will reduce its carbon-dioxide emissions to net zero by 2050. As part of this effort, the company has partnered with the University of South Florida to invest in a multi-year, multi-disciplinary “genius grant”…

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Tapping the sun and battery technology to light up the night

Solar panel street lights illuminating a street at 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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