TECO ENERGY, INC.                 Exhibit 24.1
                             POWER OF ATTORNEY

    WHEREAS, the Board of Directors of TECO Energy, Inc., a Florida
corporation, at a meeting held on January 17, 1995, authorized the officers
and directors of the Corporation to execute an Annual Report on Form 10-K
and authorized the officers of the Corporation to file said Annual Report
with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Securities Act of
1934, as amended.

    NOW, THEREFORE, each of the undersigned in his capacity as a director
or officer or both, as the case may be, of said Corporation, does hereby
appoint R. H. Kessel, A. D. Oak and D. R. Pokross, Jr., and each of them,
severally, his true and lawful attorneys or attorney to execute in his
name, place and stead, in his capacity as director or officer or both, as
the case may be, of said Corporation, said Annual Report and any and all
amendments thereto and all instruments necessary or incidental in
connection therewith, and to file the same with the Securities and Exchange
Commission.  Each of said attorneys has the power to act hereunder with or
without the other of said attorneys and shall have full power of
substitution and resubstitution.  Each of said attorneys shall have full
power and authority to do and perform in the name and on behalf of each of
the undersigned, in any and all capacities, every act whatsoever requisite
or necessary to be done in the premises, as fully and to all intents and
purposes as each of the undersigned might or could do in person, and each
of the undersigned hereby ratifies and approves the acts of said attorneys
and each of them.

    IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, the undersigned have executed this instrument on
the dates set forth below.


/s/ T. L. Guzzle                            January  17, 1995
T. L. Guzzle, Chairman of the Board
(Principal Executive Officer) and Director

/s/ A. D. Oak                               January  17, 1995
A. D. Oak, Senior Vice President-Finance
(Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)

          /s/ G. F. Anderson                January  17, 1995
G. F. Anderson, Director


           /s/ C. D. Ausley                 January  17, 1995
C. D. Ausley, Director


            /s/ S. L. Baldwin                January  17, 1995
    S. L. Baldwin, Director

          /s/ H. L. Culbreath               January  17, 1995
   H. L. Culbreath, Director


          /s/ J. L. Ferman, Jr.             January  17, 1995
  J. L. Ferman, Jr., Director
                                                                           

            /s/ E. L. Flom                  January  17, 1995
     E. L. Flom, Director


          /s/ H. R. Guild, Jr.              January  17, 1995
  H. R. Guild, Jr., Director


             /s/ R. L. Ryan                 January  17, 1995
     R. L. Ryan, Director


          /s/ J. T. Touchton                January  17, 1995
   J. T. Touchton, Director


           /s/ J. A. Urquhart               January  17, 1995
   J. A. Urquhart, Director


          /s/ J. O. Welch, Jr.              January  17, 1995
  J. O. Welch, Jr.,  Director