American Electric Power Company, Inc. (AEP)

Electric utility with a service company. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 12, 2026. Ranked 1 of the 6 Utilities companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

17,581 employees counted by subsidiary: 10,587 at the operating companies and AEP Energy read as electric utilities, and 6,994 at the service company at management of companies under rule 6.

The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.

What follows from the reading

Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 24% now, 42% at the end of 2027, 50% at the end of 2028, 54% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 54% desk work, 18% people work and 28% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 44% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 45% becomes checking a model's work and 6% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

17,581 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing counts employees by subsidiary, all U.S. operating companies across an 11-state service territory; the share rests on the territory, not on a stated count by country.

The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, the subsidiaries of AEP had a total of 17,581 employees.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: 17,581 employees by subsidiary at December 31, 2025, 6,994 of them at the service company AEPSC; approximately 24% of the workforce represented by labor unions; one workplace fatality in 2025.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Electric Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.

• The Southern Company (SO, 29,800 employees)22% now, 45% by 2028
• PG&E Corporation (PCG, 29,010 employees)21% now, 42% by 2028
• Duke Energy Corporation (DUK, 26,441 employees)21% now, 41% by 2028
• Exelon Corporation (EXC, 20,571 employees)22% now, 45% by 2028
• NextEra Energy, Inc. (NEE, 17,400 employees)21% now, 41% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

12 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI in twelve sentences: an equity joint venture, Gigawatt AI, formed to build an AI-centric operating system for utilities, the development, adoption and use of AI by the company, its customers and its vendors among changing stakeholder expectations, and the glossary and risk factors.

• “AI Artificial Intelligence.”
• “Gigawatt AI Gigawatt AI Inc., an equity interest joint venture formed to build the AI-centric operating system for utilities.”
• “The impact of changing expectations and demands of customers, regulators, investors and stakeholders, including development, adoption, and use of AI by us, our customers and our third party vendors and evolving expectations related to sustainability.”
• “Much of this demand is driven by interconnecting with and providing power to data centers and other large load customers to serve an increasingly digital economy and to support AI.”
• “Information technology failure, including failure of AI technology, that impairs AEP's information technology infrastructure or disrupts normal business operations.”

Its annual reports, year by year

Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector

• Fiscal 20210median 0
• Fiscal 20220median 0
• Fiscal 20230median 1
• Fiscal 20242median 4
• Fiscal 202512median 10

Headcount by filing year

As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.

Limits of this reading

• The U.S. share rests on the service territory, not on a count by country.
• The service company's 6,994 employees include operations support as well as corporate functions, so the management of companies pattern is larger than at most utilities.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000004904-26-000013, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.