COMMUNITY FOR HOME SAVINGS FOR HOME Cooking Up Energy Savings this Holiday Season BY TECORBM NOVEMBER 23, 2021 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… CONTINUE READING NO COMMENTS SAVINGS FOR HOME Light your home safely and efficiently this holiday season BY TECORBM NOVEMBER 15, 2021 As you deck the halls in coming weeks, we have a few handy tips for a safer, more energy-efficient holiday season. Look for energy-efficient LEDs With festive lighting such a big part of what the holidays are about, consider investing in energy-efficient light-emitting diode (LED) lights. LED lights continue to drop in price, last significantly longer and are available in many colors and styles. LEDs produce very little heat, so… CONTINUE READING NO COMMENTS ENVIRONMENT We’re capturing the sun in new ways at The Florida Aquarium BY TAMPA ELECTRIC BLOG NOVEMBER 12, 2021 The sun and the sea go together like…solar panels and Tesla batteries? At The Florida Aquarium in downtown Tampa, that’s a big warm YES! The aquarium recently opened its 6,000-square-foot rooftop terrace venue space, where we installed unobtrusive state-of-the-art solar panels that can produce 134 kilowatts of electricity. That’s enough electricity to power approximately 18 homes. Complementing the panels are two Tesla Powerwall batteries that store enough energy to power the venue’s louvered shade panels. The panels and batteries… CONTINUE READING NO COMMENTS COMMUNITY Superheroes and goblins received a treat from TECO employees BY TAMPA ELECTRIC BLOG NOVEMBER 9, 2021 As we enter the holiday season, one group of youngsters have magic to remember already. Call it the Nightmare before Christmas – with an emphasis on dreams coming true. That’s after TECO volunteers donated costumes or money for costumes to help about 100 disadvantaged children at the Patricia J. Sullivan Metropolitan Ministries Partnership School to have a happy Halloween. The school, in Tampa Heights, serves children from homeless families staying… CONTINUE READING NO COMMENTS COMPANY ENVIRONMENT Massive Plan for Tampa Electric’s Cleaner-Energy Future Brings Mighty Partners Together BY TAMPA ELECTRIC BLOG NOVEMBER 9, 2021 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”… CONTINUE READING NO COMMENTS OLDER POSTS SEARCH RECENT POSTS Cooking Up Energy Savings this Holiday Season November 23, 2021 Light your home safely and efficiently this holiday season November 15, 2021 We’re capturing the sun in new ways at The Florida Aquarium November 12, 2021 IN THE COMMUNITY October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month September 29, 2021 Opening Nov. 1 at 10 a.m., Tampa Electric’s Manatee Viewing Center is your natural remedy for a hectic world November 1, 2018 Of all the many(tee) reasons 6 million people have come to our free Manatee Viewing Center in Apollo Beach, here are some more February 20, 2020 SUBSCRIBE TO BLOG VIA EMAIL Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. 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