Big Bend wouldn't be the first Tampa Electric plant where coal has been phased out. The company replaced the coal-fired Gannon Power Station with the natural-gas powered H.L. Culbreath Bayside ...

How people in Tampa get their power could be changing drastically if a regulatory agency and the governor approve a significant upgrade to Tampa’s Big Bend power plant. In 2016, A Canadian ...

EL PASO, Texas -- Part of the blame for the haze increasingly obscuring Big Bend National Park’s wide open vistas may fall to sources as diverse as the Sahara Desert and East Coast power plants ...

Tampa Electric to dismantle two 500-foot-tall chimneys from Big Bend Power Plant by: Katlyn Fernandez. Posted: Mar 21, 2023 / 03:47 PM EDT. Updated: Mar 21, 2023 / 03:47 PM EDT ...

The company has no set timeline for when the Big Bend plant in Apollo Beach will cease warm-water discharges. It just completed a project in 2022 to convert one of the plant’s units from coal to ...

TECO coal-burning power plant in Apollo Beach, Florida. By Seán Kinane / WMNF News (Jan. 2010). Tampa Electric Company plans to spend millions to upgrade its Big Bend Power Station in Apollo Beach to ...

Federal regulators are taking their fight with Texas over pollution from coal-fired power plants to an unlikely new front: Big Bend National Park. The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday ...

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 ...