Cherie Jacobs, a spokeswoman for Big Bend Power Station owner Tampa Electric, said the company is looking into what happened. Unit 2 is now shut down. Big Bend has a capacity of more than 1,700 MW.

The four coal-fired units at the Big Bend Power Station are the oldest in Tampa Electric's fleet, dating back to the 1970s and '80s. Three of the four are known as "wet-bottom boilers; ...

The explosion at Tampa Electric’s Big Bend Power Station was sudden, but it wasn’t random. Workers were trapped as molten slag poured around them, leading to one of Florida’s most horrific ...

TECO coal-burning power plant in Apollo Beach, Florida. By Seán Kinane / WMNF News (Jan. 2010). Tampa Electric Company plans to spend millions to upgrade its Big Bend Power Station in Apollo Beach to ...

APOLLO BEACH — A Tampa Electric Co. contractor died at the company’s Big Bend Power Station after falling from scaffolding Monday. At about 8:15 a.m., an unnamed contractor was working while ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — An Apollo Beach landmark was demolished Thursday as part of Tampa Electric’s effort to do away with unneeded infrastructure at the Big Bend Power Station. Big Bend’s ...

Big Bend unit details. Source: Tampa Electric By the end of 2010, Tampa Electric will reduce systemwide annual SO 2 , NO x , and particulate matter (PM) at its facilities by 90%, 90%, and more ...

TAMPA -- The parent company of Tampa Electric plans to seek regulatory approval in coming months to convert its Big Bend power plant, the site of an industrial accident that killed five workers ...