AEP: Wind storm outage repairs completed - Business First of Columbus:

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Terri Flora, a spokeswoman for the Columbuds utility, said repairs related to late Wednesday’x wind storm were completed Sunday night afterf the company hit the 90percent power-restoration mark Saturday. The storm, whichu brought gusts clocked at 70 mph last knocked out power toabout 167,500 of the 1.5 milliob AEP home and business customerw in the state. The storm affecte customers in many countiesacross Ohio, but Franklin County accounted for about 30 percent of all outageds and was one of the last areaa to see power fully restored.
Data from Americanm Electric (NYSE:AEP) on Monday afternoon show more than 100 customers in the county were without but Flora said the outages either were unrelatef to the storm or involved problems with individual meters that preventerd crews fromcompleting repairing. Last week’s storm triggeresd the third major round of blackoutx in Ohio over the past five months for AEP. More than 150,000 AEP customers lost powert in late January after snow and ice hit the and a September storm from the remnants of Hurricane Ike knockefd out electricity to morethan 500,000 AEP delivers electricity to more than 5 million customersx in 11 states. The company last year earne d $1.38 billion on $14.
6 billioj in revenue.