Tampa Electric to Participate in Two U.S. Department of Energy Funded Demonstration Projects

Tampa Electric today announced that the company has partnered with Siemens SI to pilot a project at Tampa Electric’s Big Bend Power Station to capture CO2 emissions from conventional coal-fired power plants using an environmentally friendly process developed by Siemens. Tampa Electric also is partnering with RTI International and the Shaw Group to conduct a study on a new technology to clean synthetic gas (syngas) at elevated temperatures. The study will evaluate the construction of a pilot project to demonstrate the technology on a 30 percent side stream at the Tampa Electric Polk Power Station’s 250-megawatt IGCC plant. Tampa Electric Company is the principal subsidiary of TECO Energy, Inc. TE