AEP Ohio

Two school board leaders spoke in opposition to the proposed distribution rate increase at the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio public hearing on Tuesday, Dec. 9.

Columbus Stand Up has been building its ranks in local politics and is now organizing opposition to a utility rate increase by AEP Ohio.

Several public hearings are ongoing as the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio considers AEP Ohio's proposal. The plan would increase an average customer's costs by $4 a month and give the utility company $400 million in extra annual revenue.

AEP Ohio and a Meta affiliate are asking the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio to approve the arrangement. Meta wants the substation to supply power to a data center.

The Data Center Coalition, a national organization representing data centers, is not happy with a decision state utility regulators made this week allowing AEP Ohio to charge that industry for power differently than other rate payers.

The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio gave AEP Ohio permission to charge data centers under different rules and rates than other utility customers. The utility will end it's moratorium on bringing new data centers online.

The demand for electricity is higher than its been since 2011 on the PJM grid. Utilities like AEP Ohio are asking consumers to limit their use of electricity.

The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio approved AEP Ohio's request to build onsite energy generation plants at the Cologix and Amazon Web Services data centers.

AEP Ohio filed an annual report that shows the average number of outages a customer experiences a year, and how long their customers' outages lasted.

The demand for computing power at data centers is growing faster than the grid can produce the supply. AEP Ohio is proposing a new way to bring electricity to two large data centers that won’t tax the grid in an application the company filed with the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio.