COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 19, 2006 – American Electric Power (NYSE: AEP) will provide a live webcast of its annual meeting of shareholders Tuesday beginning at 9:30 a.m. EDT. The meeting will be held in Charleston, W.Va.
The webcast will offer both audio and video from the meeting and will be accessible at http://www.aep.com/go/webcast. It also will be available at this site after the meeting.
Minimum requirements to access the webcast:
During the meeting, AEP will reaffirm its ongoing earnings guidance of $2.50 to $2.70 per share for 2006.
American Electric Power is one of the largest electric utilities in the United States, delivering electricity to more than 5 million customers in 11 states. AEP is the nation’s largest generator of electricity, owning more than 36,000 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. AEP’s utility units operate as AEP Ohio, AEP Texas, Appalachian Power (in Virginia, West Virginia and Tennessee), Indiana Michigan Power, Kentucky Power, Public Service Company of Oklahoma, and Southwestern Electric Power Company (in Arkansas, Louisiana and east Texas). American Electric Power, based in Columbus, Ohio, is celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2006.
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