Charleston, W.Va., July 30, 2008 – Appalachian Power has named Jeffery D. LaFleur and Aaron M. Sink to new positions within the company.

LaFleur has been named vice president – generating assets for Appalachian Power. He is now responsible for all generating assets in Appalachian as well as the operation of all American Electric Power hydro units. He joined the company in 1982 as a staff engineer with Southwestern Electric Power Company and eventually became manager of operations over all SWEPCO power plants. He became the director of operations at Central and South West Corp. Energy and International, where he was responsible for the operation of unregulated power plants across the U.S., Mexico and the UK. Most recently, LaFleur was vice president – generating assets for AEP. He graduated with a mechanical engineering degree from Louisiana Tech University and completed an executive management program at Louisiana State University.

Sink is the new power plant manager at the Kanawha River Plant located in Glasgow, W.Va. He joined the AEP system in 1991 as a plant engineer at the Clinch River Plant in Carbo, Va., and later was promoted to supervising engineer. He moved to generation’s southern region services organization in 1996, where he held various positions of increasing responsibility. He joined the Philip Sporn Plant in New Haven, W.Va., in 2005 and most recently served as energy production superintendent. Sink graduated from the Virginia Military Institute in 1991 with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering. He is a registered professional engineer in the state of West Virginia.

Appalachian Power has almost 1 million customers in Virginia, West Virginia and Tennessee (as AEP Appalachian Power). It is a unit of American Electric Power, one of the largest electric utilities in the United States, which delivers electricity to more than 5 million customers in 11 states. AEP ranks among the nation’s largest generators of electricity, owning nearly 38,000 megawatts of generating capacity in the U.S. AEP also owns the nation’s largest electricity transmission system, a nearly 39,000-mile network that includes more 765 kilovolt extra-high voltage transmission lines than all other U.S. transmission systems combined.