TAMPA ELECTRIC COMPANYUnderwriting Agreement • May 23rd, 2007 • Tampa Electric Co • Electric services • New York
Tampa Electric Company, a Florida corporation (the “Company”), proposes, subject to the terms and conditions stated herein, to issue and sell to the Underwriters named in Schedule A hereto (the “Underwriters”), for whom Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, BNY Capital Markets, Inc. and BNP Paribas Securities Corp. are acting as representatives (the “Representatives”), an aggregate principal amount of $250,000,000 of 6.15% Notes due 2037 (the “Notes”). The Notes will be issued pursuant to an indenture dated as of July 1, 1998 (the “Base Indenture”) between the Company and The Bank of New York, as trustee (the “Indenture Trustee”), as heretofore amended and as amended and supplemented by the sixth supplemental indenture dated as of May 1, 2007 (the Base Indenture, as so supplemented and amended, being referred to herein as the “Indenture”).
