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Storm Protection

Community Storm Protection

Reliability improvements coming soon to a street near you

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When it comes to providing reliable energy, there’s no off season. Tampa Electric’s Storm Protection Plan (SPP) team works day-in and day-out to strengthen our system against high winds, flooding and tree contact – all storm weather impacts that cause outages. Some of these hardening improvements happen behind the scenes at places like our substations. But retrofitting overhead electric lines with stronger more storm-resistant poles on busy corridors and converting…

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For Home Storm Protection

A Day with the Storm Protection Plan team: Burying Overhead Lines Throughout West Central Florida

Whether it’s a love of our beautiful tree canopy or frustration at outages caused by wayward tree limbs, many customers have asked why Tampa Electric doesn’t bury the power lines. Thanks to the Storm Protection Plan, we are! About 55% of our neighborhood lines are currently overhead, most often in well-established, legacy neighborhoods. Our long-term Storm Protection Plan (SPP) is specifically designed to strengthen our electric grid to reduce the…

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