Emera Technologies onboards Tampa Electric Company as First Utility to Pilot Owning, Installing, and Commissioning BlockEnergy™ Front of Meter Solar-Plus-Storage Microgrid Platform

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TAMPA, Fla., May 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Emera Technologies announced today that utility Tampa Electric Company (TECO) has successfully purchased, installed and received regulatory approval for its BlockEnergy® microgrid platform for use in a pilot program serving Southshore Bay residential development, a community south of Tampa, Florida. The BlockEnergy™ solar-plus-energy storage microgrid, fully owned and operated by TECO, enables increased operability, security, and grid resilience to mitigate extreme weather and other events that can impact electric utility grid uptime. BlockEnergy microgrid also provides TECO with a cost-effective way to offer a distributed clean energy resource to its Southshore Bay customers and to quickly advance its vision to achieve a net-zero carbon future.