Exhibit 24.2
                                TECO ENERGY, INC.

                  Transcript from Records of Board of Directors
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                                January 16, 2002
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          RESOLVED, that the preparation and filing with the Securities and
     Exchange Commission of an Annual Report on Form 10-K pursuant to the
     Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, including any required
     exhibits and amendments thereto and containing the information required by
     such form and any additional information as the officers of the
     Corporation, with the advice of counsel, deem necessary, advisable or
     appropriate (the "10-K"), are hereby authorized and approved; that the
     Chief Executive Officer, the President and any Vice President of the
     Corporation be, and each of them acting singly hereby is, authorized for
     and in the name and on behalf of the Corporation to execute the 10-K and
     cause it to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission; and that
     the officers referred to above be, and each of them hereby is, authorized
     to execute the 10-K through or by R. D. Fagan, G. L. Gillette or D. E.
     Schwartz, or any of them, as duly authorized attorneys pursuant to a Power
     of Attorney in such form as shall be approved by the Corporation's general
     counsel.

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     I, D. E. Schwartz, hereby certify that I am Secretary of TECO Energy, Inc.,
a Florida corporation (the "Corporation"), and set forth above is a true and
correct copy of certain resolutions from the minutes of the meeting of the Board
of Directors of the Corporation convened and held on January 16, 2002, at which
meeting a quorum for the transaction of business was present and acting
throughout.

     I further certify that the resolutions set forth above have not been
altered, amended or rescinded and the same are now in full force and effect.

     EXECUTED this 13th day of March, 2002.


                                                /s/ D. E. Schwartz
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                                                     Secretary
                                                TECO ENERGY, INC.


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