The city of Oldsmar is celebrating National Drive Electric Week 2016 (Sept. 10-18) with a plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) rally and driving tour starting at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 17 at the Dunkin’ Donuts, 3720 Tampa Rd. Get more details on the Oldsmar event. Here’s the latest on what Tampa Electric is doing to help support the adoption of PEVs. More charging stations Just last month, Tampa Electric installed…
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Value goes up for Tampa Electric customers – while bills go down
In physics, generally speaking, when something goes up, it must come back down. But at Tampa Electric, the full package of our commitment to our customers (reliable power’s just the start) only goes up. And at the same time, your rates keep coming down. We’re eager to see that trend continue in January with a possible $1.54 decrease in customer bills in a proposal we filed on Sept. 1 with…
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TECO crews and contractors excel at safety and speed with Colin response
When Tropical Storm Colin came calling, TECO crews and contractors were ready with a “fast and furious” response – not in muscle cars but in bucket trucks and other fleet vehicles as they fanned out across the community to restore power quickly and safely. How safely? With zero personal injuries and zero preventable accidents. “When you have outages impacting nearly 40,000 customers, you’re talking about a lot of hard, complex…
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Hurricane preparedness is a way of life at TECO
Like serial killers in movies, hurricanes often greet us with innocent-sounding names before things turn deadly. That was true of 2004’s Hurricane Frances, which raged across Florida and up into the Southeastern United States, tragically taking 49 lives before finally fading on Sept. 8. Sadly, unlike the movies, hurricane season is completely real – and always potentially catastrophic. Out of that chaotic 2004 hurricane season – which overstayed its (un)welcome…
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TECO turns Mega Night electric at Rampello Magnet School
They’re too young to own homes, and you won’t see even the oldest among them behind the wheel of a car for at least a couple more years. But the students of Rampello Magnet School in Tampa know commitment to the community when they see it – and they saw a lot of it when Tampa Electric brought its electric vehicles and residential energy-saving programs to the school’s recent Mega…
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