Employees at the Delaware Service Center had been talking about helping their community but were undecided on what to do. One of the lineman’s wife is a teacher and she brought up a glaring need in area schools: not enough supplies and a list of required items that many families struggled to afford. Line Mechanic-C …
On the night of Sept. 10, Columbus Line Crew Supervisor Sean Dugan responded to a report of a pole fire in Southeast Columbus. Any burning equipment would have been immediately visible in the darkness but, when Dugan arrived at the intersection, nothing was glowing. He took out his flashlight and began diligently inspecting the area …
Lineworkers are the backbone of AEP Ohio, working with thousands of volts of electricity, around the clock and in all weather conditions, to keep the power flowing to nearly 1.5 million customers across Ohio. These critical infrastructure employees continue to power and connect our communities in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, and we couldn’t …
I think more stories like this will go a long way as it will help customers realize that we are people just like them and hopefully understand that what they go through we go through also. Just because we work for AEP Ohio does not mean our power does not go out.