The power station still emits carbon dioxide, Bennett said, but most of what comes out of the stacks now is water vapor. Big Bend wouldn't be the first Tampa Electric plant where coal has been ...

Tampa Electric’s Polk Power Station, situated on 4,300 acres that were originally part of an old phosphate mine about 40 miles southeast of Tampa, is located in one of the most water-stressed ...

A manatee and its calf pop their noses up for air while one of the four chimneys at Tampa Electric's Big Bend Power Station is reflected on the surface of the plant's warm water discharge canal on ...

LAKELAND — Tampa Electric lit the fires on a $660 million expansion of its Polk Power Station on Monday and began providing energy to the Tampa Bay area. The retrofitting project converted four ...

FOX 13 photojournalist Ryan French shows us Tampa Electric’s Bayside Power Station, where workers help keep the power on around the clock.

TAMPA, Fla. — MacDill Air Force Base held a groundbreaking ceremony Tuesday morning officially marking the start of construction for a new power plant. Tampa Electric is working on the power ...

Ten years ago, POWER selected Tampa Electric's 250-MW Polk Power Station and its revolutionary integrated gasification combined-cycle demonstration project as the magazine's 1997 Plant of the Year.

Officials for Tampa Electric said workers were trying to unplug the clogged tank when the accident occurred. Both Michael McCort, 60, a senior plant manager, and Christopher Irvin, 40, a contract ...

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Apollo Beach Nature Preserve with TECO plant in the background. By Seán Kinane (2010). Tampa Electric got final approval for major changes to its Big Bend Power Station in Apollo Beach; on Thursday ...

TAMPA -- The parent company of Tampa Electric plans to seek regulatory approval in coming months to convert its Big Bend power plant, the site of an industrial accident that killed five workers ...