Exhibit 24.1

                                TECO ENERGY, INC.
                                POWER OF ATTORNEY

     WHEREAS, the Board of Directors of TECO Energy, Inc., a Florida
corporation, at a meeting held on January16, 2002, 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 Exchange 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.
D. Fagan, G. L. Gillette, and D. E. Schwartz, 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/ R. D. Fagan
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           R. D. Fagan, Chairman of the Board,
     President, Director and Chief Executive Officer
              (Principal Executive Officer)
                                                             January 16, 2002


                     /s/ G. L. Gillette
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     G. L. Gillette, Senior Vice President-Finance
           and Chief Financial Officer
          (Principal Financial Officer)
                                                             January 16, 2002


                     /s/ S. A. Myers
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     S. A. Myers, Vice President-Corporate
              Accounting and Tax
        (Principal Accounting Officer)
                                                             January 16, 2002


                     /s/ C. D. Ausley
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               C. D. Ausley, Director
                                                             January 16, 2002


                     /s/ S. L. Baldwin
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               S. L. Baldwin, Director
                                                             January 16, 2002


                     /s/ J. L. Ferman, Jr.
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               J. L. Ferman, Jr., Director
                                                             January 16, 2002


                     /s/ L. Guinot, Jr.
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               L. Guinot, Jr., Director
                                                             January 16, 2002


                     /s/ I. D. Hall
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                I. D. Hall Director
                                                             January 16, 2002


                     /s/ T. L. Rankin
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               T. L. Rankin, Director
                                                             January 16, 2002


                     /s/ W. D. Rockford
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               W. D. Rockford, Director
                                                             January 16, 2002


                     /s/ W. P. Sovey
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               W. P. Sovey, Director

                    January 16, 2002


                       /s/ J. T. Touchton
              ----------------------------                     January 16, 2002
                 J. T. Touchton, Director


                       /s/ J. A. Urquhart
              ----------------------------                     January 18, 2002
                 J. A. Urquhart, Director


                     /s/ J. O. Welch, Jr.
              ----------------------------                    January 16, 2002
               J. O. Welch, Jr., Director