Tampa Electric’s free environmental education facility features new exhibits, games for kids and a hurricane simulator. That’s in addition to the vibrant Florida plants and birds on display and – when the water temperature of Tampa Bay falls below 68 degrees Fahrenheit – manatees up close in the wild. From Nov. 1 through April 15, join the more than 2.7 million visitors who since 1986 have to come to experience a unique destination in Apollo Beach.
Tampa Electric joined with Tampa’s Lowry Park Zoo and the University of South Florida’s Power Center for Utility Explorations to construct a 15-kilowatt solar energy project at the zoo. Completed in December 2009, the solar installation generates enough electricity to power the zoo’s Treetop Skyfari sky ride and produces clean renewable energy for the electric grid that serves the community. The project, which also includes a Renewable Energy Learning Center at the zoo, provides research opportunities for USF and Tampa Electric to study the technical, economic and environmental benefits of a renewable, grid-connected photovoltaic system for Smart Grid electric power production. See other solar panel installations Tampa Electric has installed throughout the community.
Tampa Electric has joined the City of Lakeland and the Southwest Florida Water Management District in an innovative public-private project to supply Polk Power Station with up to five million gallons of treated wastewater per day that would otherwise be discharged into Tampa Bay. The 30-year agreement will benefit the environment through the reduction of reclaimed water discharge and groundwater withdrawls for the power station, and will provide a reliable water supply for potential future generation capacity additions there. Read the news release.
For more than 100 years, Tampa Electric has served its communities with reliable, economical, efficient electricity – produced and distributed with a commitment to the environment as a top priority.
Find out how Tampa Electric has become an industry pioneer with the environmentally responsible production of electricity in our environmental report.
Utilizing advanced technology, Tampa Electric’s power plants are generating electricity more efficiently, and with fewer emissions, than ever before.
