Strong environmental performance is essential to fulfilling our corporate social responsibilities as one of the nation’s leading electricity companies. AEP believes that transparency is an important tool in communicating with our stakeholders – our customers, shareholders, employees, and other interested parties – about both the successes we have achieved and the challenges we still face.

In this section, you will find information about the environmental performance of AEP’s operations. We hope you will find this information useful in learning more about our company’s commitment to continual environmental improvement.

AEP plans to invest approximately $3.9 billion in flue gas desulfurization, selective catalytic reduction, and other air pollution control retrofits by 2010 to reduce emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx) and sulfur dioxide (SO2) significantly.