As part of our celebration of Black History Month, AEP’s Black Employee Resource Group (BERG) is sponsoring a poster exhibit in central Ohio. “A Place for All People: Introducing the National Museum of African American History and Culture” is organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service in collaboration with the Museum. The exhibit highlights …
AEP’s line school in Groveport, Ohio instructs approximately 200 lineworker and meter electrician apprentices every year. On Wednesday, November 15, the facility opened its doors to a new group of students: 50 juniors and seniors from Walnut Ridge High School in southeast Columbus. In honor of National Apprenticeship Week, a nationwide celebration to raise awareness …
AEP’s newest meteorologist, Myranda Fullerton, says most weather enthusiasts get hooked at a young age — and she’s no exception. For Myranda, it was the blizzard of 1993 that captured her attention after it dumped 25+ inches of snow on her hometown of Pittsburgh. She’s been watching the sky ever since. After spending nearly 15 …
When faced with an emergency situation, people have a “fight or flight” response that instinctively kicks in. No one quite knows for sure how they will react until it happens. For the line department at Columbus Southwest, that answer is now apparent: Fight. Twelve of the garage’s 27 lineworkers were in an industrial area of …
A new internship program will provide a pathway to employment for Columbus high schoolers while providing AEP Ohio’s Distribution Dispatch Center (DDC) with a pipeline for young, skilled talent. In late February, 66 high school juniors (studying Information Technology at Columbus Downtown High School) visited AEP Ohio’s headquarters in Gahanna. The students learned about the …
We can’t say it enough: Stay away from downed lines. Zanesville Line Servicer Eric Erwin was recently able to prevent yet another close call with this extreme danger. Erwin was called to the scene at 8:45 p.m. January 5 following a reported wire down. A tractor trailer had failed to turn sharply enough and ran …
