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2 unusual facts about Tucson Electric Power


Old Pueblo Trolley

Workers from Tucson Electric Power installed the overhead trolley wire, in some cases as volunteers.

Round Valley Ensphere

In 1987, a $12 million bond for the dome and repairs was floated and passed after it was found that Tucson Electric Power, which operates a generating station in the area, would have to pay for $11 million of it.


Kino Veterans Memorial Stadium

In 2010, after the end of the naming agreement with the local electric utility, Tucson Electric Power, the stadium was renamed after Eusebio Kino, the Jesuit missionary who first explored southern Arizona in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.


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