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American
Electric Power, Gavin's owner, serves more than nine million customers
in 7 countries worldwide. AEP is one of America's largest electricity
generators and also one of its largest investor owned utilities.
It operates 186,000 miles of power distribution lines and 38,000
circuit miles of transmission lines. |
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Brief
company profile as of 2003: |
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American
Electric Power |
NYSE: AEP
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Headquarters |
Columbus,
Ohio |
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Address |
American
Electric Power
1 Riverside Plaza
Columbus, OH 43215 |
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Founded |
1906
as American Gas and Electric Company (AG&E) in New York |
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2002
Assets |
$35
billion |
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2002
Earnings |
$14.6
billion |
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#
of Employees in US |
20,000 |
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US
Assets |
power
plants, natural gas pipelines, gas storage, coal mining operations,
coal transportation |
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US
Operations |
80 power generating stations |
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Represented
in US |
Central,
midwestern and southwestern states
(OH, WV, VA, MI, TX, OK, AR, KT, LA, TN, IN) |
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Sources
of Electricity Generation (in US) |
65%
coal
25% natural gas
7 % nuclear
3% alternative (hydro or wind as power source) |
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Subsidiaries
in |
power
engineering, construction services, energy management, telecommunications
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Worldwide
Electricity Generation Capacity |
42,000
megawatts |
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#
of Customers Worldwide |
approx.
9 million |
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Represented
worldwide in |
United
Kingdom, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, China, Australia
(by holding interests in various companies/markets) |
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An
extensive American
Electric Power history section can be found at their website. |
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