Tampa Electric Company (TEC)
Tampa Electric Company (TEC) is a balancing authority on the North American grid. On the map it has 47 power plants with 7.8 GW of capacity, natural gas the largest share at 5.8 GW. Its peak load is 4,044 MW.
At a glance
- Peak load: 4,044 MW
Capacity by fuel
47 power plants with 7.8 GW of capacity, planned generators left out.
- Natural gas: 5.8 GW from 7 plants (74%)
- Solar: 1.6 GW from 32 plants (21%)
- Other: 293 MW from 4 plants (4%)
- Biomass: 63 MW from 3 plants (1%)
- Battery storage: 20 MW from 1 plant (under 1%)
Largest plants
- H L Culbreath Bayside Power Station: Natural gas, 2 GW, Florida
- Big Bend: Natural gas, 1.5 GW, Florida
- Polk: Natural gas, 1.2 GW, Florida
- Osprey Energy Center Power Plant: Natural gas, 616 MW, Florida
- Hardee Power Station: Natural gas, 373 MW, Florida
- Wimauma Solar and Battery Storage: Solar, 115 MW, Florida
- Lake Mabel Solar and Battery Storage: Solar, 115 MW, Florida
- Mosaic New Wales Operations: Other, 112 MW, Florida
- Mosaic Co Bartow Facility: Other, 80 MW, Florida
- Long Branch Solar: Solar, 75 MW, Florida
Planned and under construction
4 generators planned, under construction or testing, 187 MW in all, not counted above.
- Solar: 167 MW
- Battery storage: 20 MW
States and provinces
- Florida: 47 plants
Sources
Power plants: EIA-860M (US); NRCan NACEI (Canada, Mexico); WRI GPPD (Mexico); OpenStreetMap via Geofabrik (Canada, Mexico gap fill); USGS USWTDB/USPVDB; EPA eGRID; Natural Earth admin-1; HIFLD control areas; location attributes from WorldPop (R2025A), Global Solar Atlas PVOUT, Global Wind Atlas 4, USFS Wildfire Hazard Potential, the USGS National Seismic Hazard Model and the previous publish's lines and substations; water distances from OpenStreetMap via Geofabrik; gas distances and county queue from the previous publish's EIA gas pipelines and LBNL Queued Up requests; nearest city from Natural Earth populated places; cooling degree days from NOAA NCEI nClimDiv county normals; elevation and slope from the Copernicus DEM GLO-30 (ESA, via AWS Open Data); water stress from WRI Aqueduct 4.0; ozone nonattainment from the EPA Green Book; drought from the U.S. Drought Monitor; tribal land from US Census TIGER/Line. License: ODbL (derivative database; EIA content is public domain, NRCan OGL-Canada, WRI GPPD CC BY 4.0; location attributes from WorldPop, Global Solar Atlas, Global Wind Atlas, LBNL Queued Up and WRI Aqueduct CC BY 4.0, USFS, USGS, EIA, NOAA, EPA, US Census and Natural Earth public domain, Copernicus DEM GLO-30 © DLR e.V. and Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, the U.S. Drought Monitor courtesy of NDMC)
Balancing authorities: HIFLD Control Areas (position, peak load); EIA-930 reference tables (which BAs are active); EIA-861 (a feature's BA); Wattlas outlines for Canadian and Mexican BAs. License: Public domain