TECO Energy News

You might know about Tampa Electric Co.'s request to raise rates next year, but you might not have heard that the same plan calls for a substantial increase in service connection charges.

The annual Global Earth Charter Community Summit and Earth Scouts Festival will be held tomorrow at the University of Tampa.

Streetcar rides will be 5 cents all day in downtown Tampa in recognition of the TECO Line streetcar system's six-year anniversary.

Parts of downtown were shut down Thursday afternoon while crews repaired a ruptured gas line.

Property owners in the Cape Coral downtown area and along Chiquita Boulevard might soon have access to natural gas - a rare commodity in Southwest Florida.

Tampa Electric Co. will soon go before state regulators to request a combined 31 percent rate increase, 22 percent of which is designed to cover higher fuel costs.

KU reported that it purchased 3.8 million tons in the November to April period, and about 368,000 tons of that came on spot purchases.

Chairman and CEO Sherrill Hudson will make a presentation in a panel discussion at the 2008 Merrill Lynch Global Power & Gas Leaders Conference in New York on Wednesday, September 24, 2008 at 9:15 AM Eastern ...

The Tampa Bay chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators is now seeking entries from across the state for its 2008 Bronze Quill Awards.

The Sierra Club and a Kentucky environmental group have filed a federal lawsuit alleging a coal company dumped mining waste in an Appalachian stream valley without a permit.

Should the hurricane hit Florida, Peoples Gas advises customers to leave their natural gas service on, even in the event of an evacuation.

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The IBEW presented a check for $25,000 that was raised at the union's annual golf tournament earlier this year.

Problems with a power sub-station near the Citrus Park Mall in Tampa is blamed for an outage this morning that affected about 1800 customers - a couple of them polling places.

Customers can call 1-877-588-1010 to report a power outage 24 hours a day, seven days a week through the automated system .

Power companies in the bay area say they're disconnecting more people because those folks aren't paying their electric bills.

Residential natural gas customers in The Villages could be subject to a new tiered monthly service charge if Peoples Gas prevails in a request for a rate hike.

Tampa consumers watched safely from afar as Progress Energy Florida increased the rates across the bay on its customers' power bills.

The energy crunch is powering work opportunities in the Tampa Bay area. TECO Energy Inc.

TECO Energy Inc. has formed a new subsidiary, SeaCoast Gas Transmission LLC, to develop and own a high-volume Florida intrastate natural gas transmission pipeline.