Among the other steps AEP is taking to reduce its CO2 impacts are:

• Setting energy conservation goals within our largest metered buildings and making our power plants more efficient;
• Avoiding the need to landfill 60,000 pounds of electronic waste as a result of an e-waste recycling day;
• Requiring that all company computers purchased be ENERGY STAR compliant;
• Setting all office printers to double-sided printing, which has saved more than 89,000 pounds of paper and 760 trees. Human Resources is on target with a goal to reduce paper use by 1 million sheets on an ongoing basis by using the intranet to provide benefit information, pay stubs, online program enrollment and other services to employees;
• Added 110 flex-fuel vehicles, 28 hybrid cars, two plug-in hybrid vehicles, one plug-in hybrid bucket truck and 18 regular hybrid bucket trucks to our mobile fleet and three new, fuel-efficient tow boats to our barge fleet;
• Seeking Leadership in Energy and Environment Design (LEED) certification for three AEP facilities;
• Becoming a SmartWay Transport Partner, an EPA program that identifies products and services that reduce transportation-related emissions. AEP is the first utility to receive this recognition; and
• Installing two, 70-kilowatt solar systems at two service centers in Ohio.