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 ...

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 ...

Contractor Killed at Big Bend Power Plant, TECO Confirms BY Spectrum News Staff Hillsborough County PUBLISHED 12:45 PM ET Feb. 22, 2021 PUBLISHED 12:45 PM EST Feb. 22, 2021 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Times did not include deaths unrelated to power plant operations, including two for Tampa Electric: Joseph Bell, a contractor who died when his commercial riding mower flipped at Big Bend in ...

APOLLO BEACH, Fla. (WFLA) – The names of the victims from Thursday’s industrial incident at Tampa Electric’s Big Bend Power Plant were released by the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office.

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 ...