Tampa Electric

About Tampa Electric

The average monthly residential power bill for a customer of Tampa Electric is $127.2 per month, while the US average is $120.24. Customers of the supplier have a 5.79% markup compared to the rest of the nation. The supplier generates a total of 1,257,488.89 megawatt hours from the use of coal. The supplier produces 6.61% of their total production, which is 1,216,213 megawatt hours, from sustainable fuel sources. The company produces 73rd megawatt hours from non-renewable fuels per year. This ranks them 5th out of 37 companies in Florida.

Power Plant Fuel Types, Emissions & Pollution Factors

Tampa Electric has roughly 15,918,932.56 megawatt hours, or 86.54%, of its electricity generated using Natural Gas. The supplier’s electricity sales efforts result in CO2 pollution totaling 9,022,746,679.79 kilograms, which is the 82nd most of any supplier in the US. The company also ranks 150th worst in emissions per megawatt hour sold, averaging 448.43 kilograms of CO2 emissions emissions per megawatt hour sold. This is, perhaps, the more important of the two metrics. There are 15 power plants associated with Tampa Electric in some capacity, which means they have the 5th highest number of generating plants associated with an electricity supplier out of the 37 providers operating that we follow in the state and 168th out of 3511 in the nation.