TECO ENERGY
TECO Energy, Inc. (TECO Energy) was incorporated in Florida in 1981 as part of a restructuring in which it became the parent corporation of Tampa Electric Company. TECO Energy and its subsidiaries had approximately 4,073 employees as of Dec. 31, 2009.
TECO Energy’s Corporate Governance Guidelines, the charter of each committee of the Board of Directors, and the code of ethics applicable to all directors, officers and employees, the Standards of Integrity, are available on the Investors section of TECO Energy’s website, www.tecoenergy.com, or in print free of charge to any investor who requests the information. TECO Energy also makes its Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) (www.sec.gov) filings available free of charge on the Investors section of TECO Energy’s website as soon as reasonably practicable after they are filed with or furnished to the SEC.
TECO Energy is a holding company for regulated utilities and other businesses. TECO Energy currently owns no operating assets but holds all of the common stock of Tampa Electric Company and through its subsidiary TECO Diversified, Inc., owns TECO Coal Corporation and through its subsidiary TECO Wholesale Generation, Inc., owns TECO Guatemala, Inc.
Unless otherwise indicated by the context, “TECO Energy” means the holding company, TECO Energy, Inc., and its subsidiaries, and references to individual subsidiaries of TECO Energy, Inc. refer to that company and its respective subsidiaries. TECO Energy’s business segments, and revenues for those segments for the years indicated, are identified below.
Tampa Electric Company, a Florida corporation and TECO Energy’s largest subsidiary, has two business segments. Its Tampa Electric division (Tampa Electric) provides retail electric service to almost 667,000 customers in West Central Florida with a net winter system generating capability of 4,719 megawatts (MW). Peoples Gas System (PGS), the gas division of Tampa Electric Company, is engaged in the purchase, distribution and sale of natural gas for residential, commercial, industrial and electric power generation customers in Florida. With more than 334,000 customers, PGS has operations in Florida’s major metropolitan areas. Annual natural gas throughput (the amount of gas delivered to its customers, including transportation-only service) in 2009 was 1.4 billion therms.
TECO Coal Corporation (TECO Coal), a Kentucky corporation, has 13 subsidiaries located in Eastern Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia. These entities own mineral rights, own or operate surface and underground mines and own interests in coal processing and loading facilities.
TECO Guatemala, Inc. (TECO Guatemala), a Florida corporation, owns equity investments in unconsolidated subsidiaries that participate in two contracted power plants and an interest in Distribućion Eléctrica Centro Americana II, S.A. (DECA II), which has an ownership interest in Guatemala’s largest distribution utility, Empresa Eléctrica de Guatemala, S.A. (EEGSA) and other affiliated energy-related companies.
TECO Transport Corporation (TECO Transport), a Florida corporation, was sold on Dec. 4, 2007. During 2007, it owned no operating assets but owned all of the common stock of, or membership interests in, nine subsidiaries which provided waterborne transportation, storage and transfer services of coal and other dry-bulk commodities.
Discontinued Operations/Asset Dispositions
TECO Energy’s results for 2007 include amounts related to asset dispositions as part of the company’s business strategy to focus on the electric and gas utilities, eliminate exposure to the merchant power sector and retire parent debt.
In the fourth quarter of 2007, TECO Energy completed its sale of TECO Transport to an unaffiliated investment group. As a result of its continuing involvement via a waterborne transportation contract with Tampa Electric, all results through the date of sale were accounted for in continuing operations. In the second quarter of 2007, a favorable conclusion was reached with taxing authorities regarding the 2005 disposition of Union and Gila merchant power plants. This resulted in after-tax net income of $14.3 million reflected in discontinued operations.
TAMPA ELECTRIC—Electric Operations
Tampa Electric Company was incorporated in Florida in 1899 and was reincorporated in 1949. Tampa Electric Company is a public utility operating within the state of Florida. Its Tampa Electric division is engaged in the generation, purchase, transmission, distribution and sale of electric energy. The retail territory served comprises an area of about 2,000 square miles in West Central Florida, including Hillsborough County and parts of Polk, Pasco and Pinellas Counties, with an estimated population of over one million. The principal communities served are Tampa, Winter Haven, Plant City and Dade City. In addition, Tampa Electric engages in wholesale sales to utilities and other resellers of electricity. It has three electric generating stations in or near Tampa, one electric generating station in southwestern Polk County, Florida and one electric generating station in long-term reserve standby located near Sebring, a city in Highlands County in South Central Florida.
Tampa Electric had 2,324 employees as of Dec. 31, 2009, of which 898 were represented by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and 209 were represented by the Office and Professional Employees International Union.
TECO COAL
TECO Coal, with offices located in Corbin, Kentucky, through its subsidiaries operates surface and underground mines as well as coal processing facilities in eastern Kentucky, Tennessee and southwestern Virginia.
TECO Coal owns no operating assets but holds all of the common stock of Gatliff Coal Company, Rich Mountain Coal Company, Clintwood Elkhorn Mining Company, Pike Letcher Land Company, Premier Elkhorn Coal Company, Perry County Coal Corporation, Bear Branch Coal Company, and all of the membership interests in TECO Synfuel Administration, LLC and TECO Synfuel Operations, LLC. The TECO Coal subsidiaries own or control, by lease, mineral rights, and own or operate surface and underground mines and coal processing and loading facilities. TECO Coal produces, processes and sells bituminous, predominately low sulfur coal of steam, industrial and metallurgical grades. TECO Coal uses two distinct extraction techniques: continuous underground mining and dozer and front-end loader surface mining.
Employees
As of Dec. 31, 2009, TECO Coal and its subsidiaries employed a total of 1,089 employees.
TECO GUATEMALA
TECO Guatemala, Inc., has subsidiaries that have interests in independent power projects in Guatemala and a minority ownership interest in an electrical distribution utility and affiliated entities. The TECO Guatemala subsidiaries had 124 employees as of Dec. 31, 2009.
TECO Guatemala indirectly owns 100% of Central Generadora Eléctrica San José, Limitada (CGESJ), the owner of an electric generating station located in Guatemala, which consists of a single-unit pulverized-coal baseload facility (the San José Power Station). This facility was the first coal-fueled plant in Central America and meets environmental standards set by Guatemala and the World Bank. In 1996, CGESJ signed a U.S. dollar-denominated power purchase agreement (PPA) with EEGSA, the largest private distribution company in Central America, to provide 120 megawatts of capacity and energy for 15 years beginning in 2000. In 2001, CGESJ signed an option with EEGSA to extend that PPA for five years at the end of its current term for approximately $2.5 million. Tecnología Marítima, S.A. (TEMSA), an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary, in addition to receiving the coal shipments for CGESJ, provides unloading services to third parties.
TECO TRANSPORT
We completed the sale of TECO Transport to an investment group for gross proceeds of $405 million in December 2007. The sale resulted in a net book gain of $149.4 million, before $16.3 million of transaction related costs recorded at TECO Energy parent. Proceeds from the sale of TECO Transport were used to pay down parent level debt on an accelerated basis.