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		<title>TECO deal includes rate freeze, solar expansion</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2017 03:06:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Tampa Electric Company has asked state regulators to approve a proposed agreement that would largely freeze base rates though 2021 and help lead to an expansion of solar energy. The agreement, filed Wednesday at the state Public Service Commission and announced Thursday, came after negotiations between Tampa Electric, the state Office of Public Counsel, business groups and federal-government agencies. If approved by the Public Service Commission, it would take effect Jan. 1. The announcement said the utility plans to add&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Bob Buckhorn after Irma: &#8216;There will be a lot of lessons learned&#8217;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mitch Perry]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Sep 2017 20:12:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Right now, Bob Buckhorn is simply too busy to take stock. But in the next few weeks, after most of the cleanup efforts have been finished following Hurricane Irma&#8217;s blow Sunday night, Tampa&#8217;s mayor says there will be time to take stock of lessons learned for when another major storm makes its path toward the Bay area. &#8220;There will be a lot of lessons learned. And that’s a good thing. That’s how we get better and better at it,&#8221; Buckhorn said during&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>235,000 TECO customers still without power</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mitch Perry]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Sep 2017 20:11:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Tampa Electric Company&#8217;s CEO says the company is furiously working to restore power to customers in Hillsborough, Pasco, Pinellas and Polk counties, and expects that most will have their electricity back by the end of the weekend, if not sooner. Gordon Gillette said that as of 3 p.m. Tuesday afternoon, there were 250,000 TECO customers still without power. That&#8217;s down from Sunday night after Hurricane Irma first blew through the Bay Area, where more than 425,000 lost service. An additional&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Hillsborough County extends state of emergency for another week</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mitch Perry]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Sep 2017 14:52:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Hillsborough County Emergency Policy Group has extended the local state of emergency declared last Wednesday regarding Hurricane Irma for an extra seven days. &#8220;Going into the disaster recovery mode, ensuring that the cost and the efforts of the recovery and recoverable &#8230; is much easier to accomplish if the local state of emergency is still in place, &#8220;County Administrator Mike Merrill said Tuesday in announcing how officials with the group came to that conclusion. The other reason is that there&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>River flooding a concern in Hillsborough County after Irma</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mitch Perry]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2017 14:20:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hillsborough County Administrator Mike Merrill said that while storm surge was the biggest concern of government officials in the Tampa Bay area as Hurricane Irma approached on Sunday, it is now flooding that may be the primary concern. &#8220;With the rainfall, we are going to see some inland river flooding,&#8221; Merrill said Monday morning while speaking at the Hillsborough County Emergency Operation Center in East Tampa, The National Weather Service reported Monday morning that there was actually a negative storm surge (of&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>&#8216;This is a big one,&#8217; Bob Buckhorn says as he declares state of emergency for Tampa</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mitch Perry]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Sep 2017 19:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Saying that the magnitude of Hurricane Irma has the potential to be a storm &#8220;unlike anything that we have ever seen,&#8221; Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn declared a state of emergency late Wednesday morning. &#8220;I cannot urge this enough: Have a plan, and now is the time to execute that plan. Friday or Saturday or Sunday, it is too late,&#8221; Buckhorn said at a news conference held at City Hall, where he was flanked by top officials in his administration. In the&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Citing TECO tragedy, Kathy Castor wants OSHA to upgrade power plant worker safety</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mitch Perry]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Sep 2017 11:15:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Citing a recent newspaper investigation which revealed that Tampa Electric Company ignored special guidelines to prevent workers from being injured at its Big Bend Power Station, Tampa&#8217;s U.S. Representative Kathy Castor is calling on the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to take steps to increase worker safety at power plants. Five men working at TECO&#8217;s Big Bend Power Station in Apollo Beach died June 29 after suffering massive burns when a molten substance called &#8220;slag&#8221; gushed out of a tank&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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