- energy
- utility
American Electric Power is one of the largest electric utilities in the United States; its Ohio operating company, AEP Ohio, is the distribution utility across much of the territory this record covers. As a regulated utility it delivers power under rates and terms set by the PUCO, and its transmission sits inside the PJM market.
AEP is a recurring named party in the data-center story because it is the utility that must actually serve the new load — building substations, negotiating special arrangements for hyperscale customers, and forecasting the demand growth those customers drive. Its filings at the PUCO and its role in PJM planning are where the utility's own account of a project's power needs appears, to be read against the neutral baseline of the EIA utility data.