TECO Energy Inc.

Public Company, Headquarters Location
702 N Franklin St., Tampa, FL 33602-4429, United States
(813)228-4111, http://www.tecoenergy.com

Primary SIC: Electric Services, Primary NAICS: Electric Power Distribution
Description: Founded in 1899, TECO Energy reincorporated in Florida and went public on the New York Stock Exchange in 1981. TECO is engaged in the generation, purchase, transmission, distribution and sale of electric energy. The company is a holding company whose main operating subsidiary, Tampa Electric Company, is an electric utility serving Florida's central west coast. The company produces its electricity from coal and also purchases, sells natural gas for residential, commercial, industrial and electric power generation through its Peoples Gas unit throughout Florida including operating territory, large cogeneration facilities utilize gas-fired technology in the production of electric power and steam. Headquartered in Tampa, Florida, the company currently operates a network 30 electric, gas and coal generating plants and owns 178 substations in the United States. Tampa Electric serves residential, industrial, and commercial customers in the principal cities of Tampa, Plant City, Winter Haven and Dade City. Other subsidiaries maintained include TECO Coal, operates surface and underground mines as well as coal processing facilities in eastern Kentucky, Tennessee and southwestern Virginia. Other operations include TECO Guatemala that operates two power plants as a distribution utility.Utilities: Electric power distribution. Transportation: Water transportation of coal and grain. Mining: Coal and natural gas. Finance: Holding company.