Reporting

together. As shareholders and stakeholders increasingly seek more information on a wider range of issues, we believe this approach reflects our commitment to transparency and the consideration of these issues in our routine business decisions. This web site contains substantial information about our challenges, risks and opportunities. It focuses on those issues we believe to be material to our sustainability.

Cover image of anual report This is American Electric Power's first integrated report, combining information about our financial performance with data on our environmental, social and governance performance. Information contained herein is largely based on calendar year 2009, with exceptions for some early 2010 data as noted.

It is a comprehensive report offering frank discussion about our performance and our strategies for sustainability. It is supported by substantive information that identifies our challenges, risks and opportunities. In preparing this report, we identified seven issues that we believe are most critical to our sustainability and we have structured our report to reflect them.

AEP's report follows GRI's G3 Reporting Principles. In addition, we report on the performance indicators of the GRI Electric Utility Sector Supplement; this supplemental reporting provides greater insight into our specific industry and the issues we face. The performance indicators from this supplement were not final at the time this report was developed. Therefore, the indicators we are reporting on were still in draft form. AEP was one of two U.S. companies to pilot the indicators in the development of this supplement. We adhere to the GRI principles of materiality, stakeholder inclusiveness, sustainability context, completeness, comparability, accuracy, timeliness, clarity, reliability and boundary setting. Our report is also checked by GRI.

For additional information GRI Checked about this report, the GRI information posted to this web site or AEP’s sustainability initiatives, please contact Sandy Nessing at smnessing@aep.com or Jerra Thomas at jmthomas2@AEP.com.

For more information please visit the Corporate Citizenship section on AEP.com. For investor information, please visit the Investor Relations section of AEP.com.