ODESSA, May 17, 2004
Students, educators, parents and anyone interested in how solar energy works now have an online resource to chart a new local project’s up-to-the-minute solar energy output. On the Florida Solar Energy Center’s Web site, by selecting the Click here for a list of schools link and scrolling down to Walker Middle School, users can chart the energy output of the new Tampa Electric Company-installed, 4-kilowatt solar panel array at Charlie Walker Middle School in Odessa.
The solar panel array -- designed to educate about the benefits of solar power as well as help the school function as a hurricane shelter in the event standard electrical power is lost -- went online this month. It is the result of a partnership between the School District of Hillsborough County, Florida Department of Environmental Protection/Florida Energy Office (DEP/FEO) and the Florida Solar Energy Center (FSEC).
Tampa Electric Company is the principal subsidiary of TECO Energy, Inc. (NYSE:TE), a diversified holding company of energy-related businesses that include Peoples Gas System, TECO Transport, TECO Coal, TECO Wholesale Generation and TECO Solutions.
For more information, contact Ross Bannister at (813) 228-4945.
Tampa Electric Company is the principal subsidiary of TECO Energy, Inc. (NYSE: TE), an integrated energy-related holding company with core businesses in the utility sector, complemented by a family of unregulated businesses. Tampa Electric Company is a regulated utility with both electric and gas divisions (Tampa Electric and Peoples Gas System). Other subsidiaries are engaged in waterborne transportation, coal and synthetic fuel production and independent power.
