GAHANNA, OH, Aug. 6, 2009 – Joe Hamrock, AEP Ohio president and chief operating officer, recently named Ed Mowrer vice president – Distribution Operations for AEP Ohio.
“I am very pleased to welcome Ed to the AEP Ohio executive team," said Hamrock. "Ed´s proven leadership capabilities, experience and dedication to safety and leadership development will ensure the continued success of AEP Ohio’s Distribution organization.”
Mowrer began his career with AEP in 1976 as an electrical engineer in Canton for Ohio Power. Throughout his career, he has worked in several areas of the company, including Transmission, Distribution, Rates and Corporate Development.
Mowrer is a past board member of the William McKinley Presidential Library and Museum as well as past president of the Ohio River Council of the Boy Scouts of America. He has served on various Chamber, United Way and economic development boards in Ohio and West Virginia. Mowrer is a graduate of the University of Akron with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and received a master of business administration degree from Ashland University.
AEP Ohio provides electricity to nearly 1.5 million customers of major AEP
subsidiaries Columbus Southern Power Company and Ohio Power Company in Ohio, and Wheeling Power Company in the northern panhandle of West Virginia. AEP Ohio is based in Gahanna, Ohio, and is a unit of American Electric Power.
American Electric Power is one of the largest electric utilities in the United
States, delivering electricity to more than 5 million customers in 11 states. AEP ranks among the nation’s largest generators of electricity, owning nearly 38,000 megawatts of generating capacity in the U.S. AEP also owns the nation’s largest electricity transmission system, a nearly 39,000-mile network that includes more 765-kilovolt extra-high voltage transmission lines than all other U.S. transmission systems combined. AEP’s transmission system directly or indirectly serves about 10 percent of the electricity demand in the Eastern Interconnection, the interconnected transmission system that covers 38 eastern and central U.S. states and eastern Canada, and approximately 11 percent of the electricity demand in ERCOT, the transmission system that covers much of Texas. AEP’s utility units operate as AEP Ohio, AEP Texas, Appalachian Power (in Virginia and West Virginia), AEP Appalachian Power (in Tennessee), Indiana Michigan Power, Kentucky Power, Public Service Company of Oklahoma, and Southwestern Electric Power Company (in Arkansas, Louisiana and east Texas). AEP’s headquarters are in Columbus, Ohio.