Power Generation
AEP is America's largest generator of electricity, with an enviable fleet of power plants. However, its asset base also includes coal mines, barges, rail cars, transportation terminals, and more. Taken together, these assets provide operational flexibility and valuable market intelligence.
AEP owns and operates about 80 generating stations in the United States, with a capacity of nearly 38,000 megawatts.
While the size of the fleet is significant, it's the efficiency - and the resulting reliability and operational economies - that has earned AEP its reputation as a pioneering, innovative, dependable, low-cost producer of power.
AEP believes strongly in the merits of fuel diversity in generating electricity, and its own generating fleet reflects that belief. Today, coal-fired plants account for 66 percent of AEP's generating capacity, while natural gas/oil represents 22 percent and nuclear 6 percent. The remaining 6 percent comes from wind, hydro, pumped storage and other sources. AEP's recent investments in wind facilities have made it one of the nation's leaders in that renewable resource.
John E. Amos Plant
The John E. Amos Plant is one of the world's largest coal-fired generating stations. It ranks as the largest generating plant in the AEP system and in the state of West Virginia.
Amos Unit 3, completed in 1973, was the first of AEP's series of 1.3-million-kw units. The late John Amos was a West Virginia civic leader, attorney, businessman, legislator and director of American Electric Power Company.
