Overview
American Electric Power (Nasdaq: AEP) is a major US electric utility and transmission owner headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. It serves about 5.6 million customers across 11 states and is expanding competitive generation for large-load customers, including AI data centers.
Reality check
Cheyenne fuel-cell project (company-claimed)
Plans about $4B for a 702 MW Bloom Energy solid-oxide fuel-cell plant near Cheyenne, WY under a 20-year PPA with Google via Cheyenne Fuel Cell, LLC (about 92% AEP-owned).
Cheyenne COD target (company-claimed)
Construction planned to start in 2026; facility expected fully operational by end of 2028. No combustion; carbon capture planned.
Mainspring linear generators (company-claimed)
Agreed Oct 2026 to buy up to 1.6 GW of Mainspring Linear Generators through 2034; first 190 MW tranche purchased for delivery beginning in 2027.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Data & sources
Press releases
1
Web sources
7
8 sources backing this record.View all →
Partnerships
Every company American Electric Power has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 1Amazon1× joint10 total
- 2Bloom Energy1× joint1 total
- 3Google1× joint14 total
- 4Mainspring Energy1× joint
- 5X-energy1× joint
Most recent
- with X-energyoperating
- with Googleoperating
- with Mainspring Energyoperating
Relationships
Safety record
No incidents on record for American Electric Power.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Recent coverage
American Electric Power in third-party press
Mentioned on (5)
Registry pages whose text names American Electric Power.
Companies (4)
Deployments (1)
Partnerships
3 total · 3 operating
Every company American Electric Power has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
- with X-energyoperating
- with Googleoperating
- with Mainspring Energyoperating
Most-frequent partners
- 1Amazon1× joint10 total
- 2Bloom Energy1× joint1 total
- 3Google1× joint14 total
- 4Mainspring Energy1× joint
- 5X-energy1× joint
All 3 partnerships
open in the atlas →- development2026-10-19announcedoperating
- technology2026-10-14announcedoperating
- deployment2026-10-13announcedoperating
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdOct 14, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (8)
- https://www.aep.com/news/stories/view/12314/ · 2026-10-14
- https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/aep-advances-innovative-energy-solution-for-google-with-702mw-of-bloom-fuel-cells-302907658.html · 2026-10-14
- https://www.mainspringenergy.com/news/mainspring-energy-signs-landmark-1-6-gw-agreement-with-aep-for-reliable-affordable-power-capacity · 2026-10-13
- https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/mainspring-energy-signs-landmark-1-6-gw-agreement-with-aep-for-reliable-affordable-power-capacity-302906235.html · 2026-10-13
- https://www.aep.com/news/stories/view/12330/ · 2026-10-19
- https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/aep-partners-with-amazon-and-x-energy-to-explore-advanced-nuclear-energy-in-indiana-302912113.html · 2026-10-19
- https://investors.x-energy.com/news-releases/news-release-details/x-energy-amazon-american-electric-power-partner-bring-smr · 2026-10-19
- https://indianamichiganpowernuclear.com/sullivan-county
Common questions
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Methodology: Unreviewed · 8 sources (1 primary) · last reviewed 2026-10-19
Verification posture
Unreviewed
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-10-19
Sources by quality tier
- 7
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
- 1
- primary-company-ir
- Company IR disclosure
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for American Electric Power.In the press
Recent coverage mentioning American Electric Power from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Amazon is funding a new nuclear plant in Indiana
Amazon has signed an agreement with X-energy and American Electric Power (AEP) to fund the building of a new nuclear energy facility in Indiana. The proposed plant, which would…
Amazon and AEP Explore 960-Megawatt Nuclear Project in Indiana
American Electric Power Co. is working with Amazon.com Inc. to evaluate plans for a 960-megawatt nuclear plant in Indiana using a new reactor design, a project that would rely on…
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/aep.md
- RSS feed: /companies/aep/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/76096a8c-1b5a-4c88-a327-6a245664eb3a
- Revision history: /companies/aep/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Reality vs attention
Not enough verified signal yet to place American Electric Power against peers. Reality and attention percentiles publish once the underlying record clears its data floor.
6-month trend
Analysis
Limited public visibility and press coverage relative to peers.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Oct 26, 2026